Hi,

I've got a P4P800 Deluxe running well now with 4 HDs including a RAID Mirror
for data only.

I'm building another system, a SFF box, into which I'm going to put some
older components, to try to learn about Linux, which is not the point of
this post!

I decided to take this opportunity to swap out the 120gig EIDE Hard Disk I
use for my system partition, with the rest (the majority) of the disk being
used for storing large video files. My plan is to swap out the 120 EIDE
disk and replace it with a Maxtor 160gig 7200 RPM 8MB cache SATA drive I've
ordered from Newegg. Presumably I would plan to partition this 160gig disk
into a 30 or 35GB system/boot partition for W2K, and use the rest for my
video files in a separate partition. Currently my W2K system is upgraded to
include all service packs (SP4) plus patches to date.

Anyway, I was intending to use an image (Norton Ghost 2003) of my old
system partition and to put it back onto the new system partition of the new
160GB SATA drive. Norton Ghost is compatible with SATA drives according to
the Symantec knowledge base. My understanding is that I need to have the
SATA driver loaded but as far as I can tell there is no separate SATA
driver, merely the Intel chipset driver includes this driver. But I'm not
really sure about this nor can I find the answer to this in a google groups
search of this and other ngs. I did read a post or two that implied it was
best to have installed the SATA driver during the initial install of W2K but
trying to do that now with all my other programs loaded would be a nightmare
for this system that is only 6 weeks old at most! The thought of having to
do THAT (complete reinstall of all software) would be enough to convince me
to put the sata drive in the new SFF system and leave the present setup
as-is.

Any advice on how best to proceed with this situation would be most
appreciated. My SATA drive will be installed directly to the mobo with a
serial drive cable, not through an add-on card.

Thanks in advance for all advice!

Ken