True Image 2009 will not see SATA Drive - Need to Clone IDE Drive

I built a new system and spent hours trying to install XP on a SATA drive. I then learned it was not possible without a floppy drive with drivers or using nLite to slipstream a new OS Disk.

I then installed XP on an old slow IDE drive without a problem.

I now want to clone the IDE drive to a faster and larger SATA drive. The problem is that the OS recognizes the 300GB Maxtor Maxline III drive, but when I go to Clone mode, Acronis True Image 2009 says I only have one drive installed.

What do I need to do the allow this to work?

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What Windows version (and ServicePack) do you want to install?

If you have WinXP (prof or home) with SP2 there is no problem to install to an SATA-hdd.
(IMHO WinXP with SP1 can do it too. But there I'm not sure...)

If you have only a WinXP-cd without any ServicePack then you can do it like you suggest:
Install on IDE, update WinXP to SP3 and then clone the IDE drive.
It should work...

 

The XP disk I used was an old one without any service packs. That does not matter now since I already installed XP on an IDE drive and downloaded all the updates including SP3.

Now, I just want to Clone my old IDE drive to a faster and larger SATA drive.

Acronis will not see this drive and allow the clone to happen. It gives me a messgage that says

"Unable to continue. You have only one drive. This programs is designed to work with two or more disk drives"


The SATA drive does show up in CP as Drive E though.

 

- Do you start with the rescue-cd? Or under Windows?
- Do you use SATA-connectors OnBoard? Or an extra SATA-PCI-Card?
- In what mode does your SATA work (NativeIDE, AHCI, Raid?) See the bios.

- What build/version is your Ti2009? 9615 or 9646?

 

Start under Windows
On board SATA
I have tried all bios settings
Build: unknown - don't know where to find it

 

The problem appears to be that the Linux environment for TI 2009 doesn't support your SATA controller. Acronis support may be able to provide an ISO of a boot disk with the needed drivers.

If you want to try something different, have you tried a BartPE or VistaPE boot disk? This allows you to run TI 2009 in Windows from a CD/DVD and have all the Windows drivers.

 

To find the build, press the ALT key to bring up the menu and then select the Help >> About menu option (How to see what build of TI 2009 is installed). If you're not using the latest build, you could update and see if it finds the drive.

Since you're trying to Clone with TI running in Windows, you should try TI by booting to the TI CD. It may work better for you.

If the Full Mode version from the CD doesn't work, you could try the Safe Media (Safe Mode) version of TI 2009. If you don't have it, you'll need to download it from your Acronis account, install it and create a new TI CD that includes it. Then boot the CD and select the Safe Media version instead of the Full version.

 

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