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Restoring XP to an ANCI computer with IDE formatting.

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I have a dilemma. I am trying to restore an XP install to a new Haswell computer for a test. I am already seeing an issue with my Asus Q87-E motherboard having both uefi enabled and AHCI enabled.

My biggest worry is restoring my IDE formatted XP backup to my AHCI configured Q87 board.

Is there a special way to format my hard drive in IDE mode while AHCI is enabled?

also, will Q87 have any XP drivers? Or will it run with legacy drivers of XP?

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IDE and AHCI have nothing to do with disk formatting. IDE is considered a legacy standard drive interface. AHCI is the Advanced Host Controller Interface which is used to support advanced features of a modern disk drive.

I suspect that you will not have success using UEFI with Win XP.

Here are 2 threads which may help first is a rundown on XP and AHCI. Second is dealing with UEFI, legacy boot mode on newer Mobo's. Good Luck!

http://superuser.com/questions/427340/how-to-enable-ahci-in-windows-xp-…

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=733841

Thanks for your response. I assumed it would work and I restored the backup. After some odd issues I got it booting finally, but now it doesn't have a documents folder. apparently the original system had was using two hard drives for the installation. At least some of the documents and settings folder was moved to the second hard drive.

Is there a simple way to save all of this in one backup? or do I need to make two backups and two restores and undo the folders moves back to one drive. I cannot undo this before hand as the original computer needs to stay original.

Sounds like you at least have a bootable machine at this point. Document folders or documents and settings in the case of XP are user data just like pictures, movies, downloads, etc. Microsoft makes an application called Easy Transfer which you can download off the Web that allows for user data to be transferred from one computer to another. Since you have a situation where these files are spread across multiple drives one major issue you face is that the pointers within the OS as to where this data is located would be off if you simply copied and pasted that data to a new location for example or if you backed that data up and then attempted to restore it to a new location on a single drive. Easy Transfer should be able to allow you to locate the user data on the old installation and transfer to the the new install and make the necessary changes to the new OS install so that it all works. At least that is the premise behind the software.

Acronis also offers a tool called Migrate Easy that performs this same functionality. Links for these are below.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7349

http://www.acronis.com/en-us/personal/migration-software/?adpos=1t1&dev…