so if i wanted to move an ide hd to sata, instead of pressing f6 during windows install, can i install them after installation via chipset drivers, and just ghost the original ide to a sata drive? technically sata drivers should be installed right
F6 would work, assuming you could find Windows 2000 controller drivers. But in 2012 I have to question why in the hell anyone would want to do that. Sometimes what your clients want isn't want they need and you gotta give 'em the bad news. We shouldn't even be deploying Windows XP or Server 2003 any longer, much less 2000 or NT4...
User: How do I do "this"? Me: What are you trying to accomplish? User: I want to know how to do "this"... Me: No. What are you trying to accomplish. User: ??? Me: What is the goal? User: Oh. I want to be able to do "this". Me: OK. Why? User: I dunno. *facepalm*
Trying to refresh the OS on older hardware I could understand, "I've got an old PC that I want to keep using for browsing or word processing", etc. But an old OS on newer hardware? Only in cases where you have a special application that isn't compatible with a newer OS and the upgrade is cost prohibitive. And even then you push the client to buy the upgrade. In the long run they're money ahead.
On a newer motherboard, they usually come set as AHCI. You can dumb that down to IDE and it emulates IDE. I've had it work a couple of times. My best suggestion is download the latest EVERYTHING drivers that work for Win2K for the sata and ide chipsets for the motherboard in use, and install the snot out of them, just to be on the safe side. Other than that...Win2K...pffft...so 2001.
i dont even know why someone wants to run sata on such an old ass OS. its not gonna matter. youre still stuck with an old outdated, barely supported OS.
yeah i've done that a couple times, but his stupid board doesn't let you control the sata devices at all besides SMART function yeah he sells cosmetics or some crap but his program won't work on more modern os's not to mention hes still using epson t88ii legacy thermal printers via multiserial port anyways i got it sata working, but had to split to multiple partitions cause it only shows 160gb even with bigLBA enabled
Something to consider going forward would be virtualization, or Linux. A VMWare box with a 2000 session running on it, or you could have experimented with his application on Linux using Wine. I've been amazed how well Wine works these days, give it a try.
