I can't use my Maxtor SATA, no copy or boot, no install HELP

[2JZFAN]

Hey guys, I couldn't come up with a great subject so thanks for taking the time to check this thread out. Here's the deal.

Athlon Xp 1700+ 1.47HGz
1x512MB Mushkin PC2100 HP LV2 222 DDR RAM
Abit KR7A Mobo Bios: ?? but not original, i have updated. nothing useful available from abit
Acard AEC-6290 PCI Serial Adapter/Controller BIOS: 2.23
C: = (Primary IDE)IBM 30GB 7200RPM IDE (( SOURCE DRIVE )) 307030
D: = (SATA CH:1) Maxtor 80GB SATA (( DESTINATION )) Y080M0

Windows XP Pro SP1 fully updated
VIA Service Pack 4.53v
everything updated..

I'm trying to copy my C: to my D: I've done everything I can think of. I'm using Norton Ghost 9.0 and I continue to get this error:



"The drive copy did not complete successfully. Cannot copy source drive to destination location. Error E7C30010: Device \\. \PhysicalDrive1 cannot write 4,096 sectors starting at LBA 21,747,847. Error 0000001B. The drive cannot find the sector requested. (0xE7C30010)"

There are no misprints in that quote, I have a screenshot. I thought this was an allocation unit size issue.. but I'm using XP disk management "default aloocation size" to mount/format/partition the drive. Is it an issue with the PCI SATA card? The SATA card and the IDE..? UGH*

Norton ghost has no support, Acard has no support, Maxtor doesn't have much support. Can you guys help me..?

[2JZFAN]

From what I've read online some people are saying you can't copy (even with NG9) from IDE to SATA in XP. The advice was to fresh install on SATA then use FAST wizard to migrate. Not my first choice, not looking forward to this if only option.

Now with this being said for some reason when I try to install XP Pro on the SATA drive it sometime tells me that files are missing from the CD.. which can't be the case, the CD is in great shape.

I still think this is something we can work out.. F.A.S.T. can't be my only option!

[blubomber]

I have not worked with Norton Ghost in a while, but cant you create a bootable floppy and do a disk copy from that? That is how i used to copy my hard drives using NG.

Welcome to TechIMO!

[DanU]

I haven't used GHOST in LONG time... can you run GHOST from outside XP? My guess is that the system files that are in use are causing a problem.

I had no problems copying my 80gig pata seagate to my 250 gig sata hitachi. I used DriveClonerXP, and it's freeware.

Since you have a Maxtor drive, you can download the MaxBlast software to clone your old disk. I've used it on a few occasions and it works OK.