Thread: Hard Drive Cloning Problem

Update: I got everything working. Here is the rundown. 1.)I unplugged my old master drive now that it was imaged on the new G: partition of my new HDD. The reason it was not starting up is because it was reading Windows XP on the C drive, and that was not the case anymore. I did have to repair the installation of Windows XP in order to get into the system. Once that was done, I got it. 2.) Problem was that most of my programs were looking for...

With SATA hard drives there is no master/slave relationship as you know it in IDE drives. SATA has multiple channels (SATA-0,1,2, etc.) which means one device per channel. The jumpers on SATA drives usually dictate storage limitations and transmit speeds. What you can do is in the BIOS, choose which hard drive you want to be the primary boot drive. Try setting your SATA Caviar Blue as primary.