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I have an IDE hard disk and want to move it to a new computer. However, that computer only supports SATA and I doubt it will boot from a PCI IDE card. Using a connect that converts the IDE to SATA, the bios (ClickBiosII) doesn't detect it. If I connect a different one, to convert it to USB instead, it does get detected but Windows XP bluescreens halfway through boot. What options do I have for booting this disk on a new computer?
Motherboard: FM2-A85XA-G65
APU: AMD A8-660K (3.9Ghz)
HD: WDC WD1200JB-00GVA0
Previous Motherboard: Dell(Optiplex gx270)(not the first motherboard the disk has been in though) Previous CPU: Intel Pentium 4 (Prescott 2.8Ghz)
You can't boot and run XP from USB without some very strange hacks. XP actively prohibits it. – Jamie Hanrahan – 2018-12-23T01:42:37.077
We need more information. Please provide motherboard model, IDE disk model, connector model, and any other kind of data you deem useful. – Doktoro Reichard – 2013-10-07T21:43:30.313
What is your motherboard model? This info is useful. Also I don't think you can just move the disk through computers and get it to boot correctly, but this is based upon experience. – ranisalt – 2013-10-07T21:44:30.543
the blue screen would occur even if you managed to boot it when plugged into the inside with an adapter, just as it occurred when you managed to successfully boot it from USB. Don't you realise you managed to boot it from USB.. But Windows wouldn't start. Because unlike with Win 9X, you can't transfer a HDD with Win NT(e.g. XP/7) from one computer to another(whose MBRD has a different chipset), except when windows has been specially prepared(apparently acronis can make that preparation). But even then i'm not sure you can do it afterwards. Nothing to do with IDE/SATA. See NikolaD's answer. – barlop – 2013-10-07T22:47:20.217