Image of partition on laptop

[aculbe]

I bought new Toshiba Satelite laptop and made a copy of partition of old laptop disk to new disk. But the new disk is SATA so the XP crashes on boot. I installed a fresh copy of WIN XP to another partition with SATA AHCI drivers. Is there possible to integrate SATA drivers in old windows from new XP. I really need old partition to work.

[CCT]

editted out - sounds maybe illegal

[Ferrit]

So let me get this straight
You had an old laptop with a ide harddrive that you made a partition copy of and now you trying to restore that copy to the new laptop with the sata harddrive?

[Platypus]

trying to restore that copy to the new laptop
That does sound like the cause of problem, doesn't it?

aculbe, welcome to Windrivers, but as Ferrit wants to clarify, you mostly can't successfully transfer a Windows XP installation onto a different computer. When XP was installed onto the old laptop, it was set up for the components in that system. The new one has different parts that won't work with that XP setup, so it crashes. The crash may or may not also be related to the new drive being SATA.

If we've understood this correctly, there are probably two possibilities.

1. If the XP on the old laptop was a full retail boxed version, you may be able to boot the new laptop from the XP CD and choose to do a repair installation. You may need to have SATA drivers available on a floppy disk, which can be a problem as most current laptops don't have a built-in FD. If there is an option in the BIOS to set the SATA controller to emulate IDE, you could try that.

2. If the XP on the old laptop was an OEM version, then you can't legally (or in most cases practically) transfer it to another machine. The license is only valid for the original laptop, and it's also possible that the installation is keyed to the BIOS of the original machine, and cannot function on another.

[NooNoo]

Umm a repair install over the imaged sata drive might be all that's needed here.

[Ferrit]

Quite true but it will in all likely hood ask for the sata drivers

[NooNoo]

True.. but a usb floppy should fix that problem.