New SSD - Questions

[hjonesMCT]

Deleted. Sorry!

 

[JimmyJazz]

ok... what I did was disabled the Raid SSD in the bios and F8 to bring up the SaTA drive. Tried to load XP on HDD, but no luck.

I then re-enabled the SSD and both drives booted. I do get a windows boot manager screen with Win7 listed first, Xp second. I think this is because of setting it up with easyBCD awhile back. Attached is a capture

 

[gregrocker]

That confirms it is booting off the Win7 SSD.

You're all set whenever you want to delete XP partition and remove its listing in EasyBCD.

Let us know how performance turns out.

 

[Shootist]

ok, off to try!

Are you running Win7 Pro or Ultimate?
If you are running either of those versions you might want to try XP Mode.
It give you XP Pro inside Win 7. That way you don't need to boot back and forth and you can set the drive configuation to AHCI.

 

[JimmyJazz]

Greg: I'm thinking I should probably leave well enough alone for now. Its working and that is good enough for me at this point. But, I am wondering now if I was to partition the SSD raid drive to house XP too... ahhh never mind...

Shootist: Yes, but the programs I wanted to use in Win7 XPmode would not work.

Thanks very much for all your help guys!

 

[gregrocker]

Wasn't saying you need to delete XP now, Jimmy, only that when you want to get rid of it that it will be easier than normal.

Normally XP holds the System Files on a Win7 Dual Boot, so that removing XP requires repairing Win7 by writing the System Boot Files to its partition after marking it Active.

But in this case Win7 is already marked Active so no surgery is required

You can also save a Win7 backup image without being forced to include XP unless you select it. Backup Complete Computer - Create an Image Backup

 

[JimmyJazz]

Ok Greg, I am going to create an image of the Win7 disk.

 

[Shootist]

Shootist: Yes, but the programs I wanted to use in Win7 XPmode would not work.

Thanks very much for all your help guys!

Do you mean XP Mode won't work on your Win 7? Because you are running Home Premium?
Or that program won't run in XP mode?

What program is this?
If it will run on a XP install it will run in XP Mode.

If it is a DOS program give DOSBox a try right in Win 7.
I run some very old DOS games using DOSBox on both XP and Win 7.

 

[JimmyJazz]

Yes, I just bought my copy of Home Prem. the same day I purchased the SSD. Prior to that I bought a copy of Ultimate off of a guy coming out of a local computer store and as it turned out, it was not legit, worked fine for awhile, but I woke up one day to the desktop saying I was a victim of piracy. Guess thats why it was much cheaper than the in store versions...

I tried to run Mealmaster and MenuPro, both programs I have had for well over 13years, and neither of them would work in XP mode. Not sure if it was me or the XPmode, but enlight of todays findings... it was most likely me!

 

[gregrocker]

There are also VirtualBox, VirtualPlayer and VMWare freeware to try.

 

[JimmyJazz]

ok Greg, I just finished running the backup image. Saved it to a data drive.

 

[gregrocker]

Good, now you never have to reinstall again - just reimage the SSD/HD (or its replacement) from booted DVD using saved image: System Image Recovery

 

[JimmyJazz]

The backup included that boot.ini on c: drive tho... will that matter?

 

[JimmyJazz]

Good, now you never have to reinstall again - just reimage the SSD/HD (or its replacement) from booted DVD using saved image: System Image Recovery

Thats awesome! Thanks Greg!

 

[JimmyJazz]

Good Morning!

I am attempting to slipstream AHCI drivers into my XP cd.

I would like to know how to ID my specific SATA controller on my ASUS P5Q-e board, and then load that into the slipstream. I have checked Device Manager, but not quite sure where to look.

 

[gregrocker]

In Device Manager it will be SATA controller.

Find the make/model number there, or check the mobo specs to find SATA controller, then download XP driver from maker's Support Downloads webpage.

 

[Shootist]

Good Morning!

I am attempting to slipstream AHCI drivers into my XP cd.

I would like to know how to ID my specific SATA controller on my ASUS P5Q-e board, and then load that into the slipstream. I have checked Device Manager, but not quite sure where to look.

I believe all Asus Intel base motherboards, one that use Intel CPUs, use Intel chipsets and the SATA controller is built into the chipset. So you need to go to the Intel website.

 

[JimmyJazz]

I'm sure you will find this hard to believe, but I am lost! :haha:

If I look in device manager from Win7, I can't find anything regarding SATA Controller (see 1st snip)

If I look when in XP, I can find SATA controller (snip2), but I cannot find appropriate drivers at Intel or Asus.

The listed controller is Intel ICH10 and for the life of me I cannot find the AHCI drivers for that for XP. Only thing I have found for it is Server Drivers.

The AHCI drivers I have downloaded for XP32bit and looked through only support up to ICH09, so I have cancelled the slipstream for now and will await advice

 

[JimmyJazz]

Update...

I now have the system booting into both OS with AHCI set in the bios.

I found that within the Server AHCI driver package at Intel was SATA AHCI for win xp. Figured I would try it. Seems to have worked.

I have now slipstreamed that driver into XP and have it saved as an .iso

Attached is a snip from XP device manager as it is now...

 

[Shootist]

Update...

I now have the system booting into both OS with AHCI set in the bios.

I found that within the Server AHCI driver package at Intel was SATA AHCI for win xp. Figured I would try it. Seems to have worked.

I have now slipstreamed that driver into XP and have it saved as an .iso

Attached is a snip from XP device manager as it is now...

When you say "Seemed to have worked" how did you get it to work?
Was this on your original XP install?