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abducens

Registered: Jan 2003
Posts: 523

04-17-12 11:24 PM

I have a pata drive that I boot from and the bios gets to the windows xp screen in about 5 seconds. If I use an exact copy ( acronis) with a sata drive the bios takes 3 times as long. Its an intel brand g33 board and all drivers are up to date. any ideas? thanks

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sledgeyum

Registered: Jun 2011
Posts: 179

04-18-12 04:54 AM

Get an Intel 320 ssd

Install fresh.

I did in my 2008 HP lappy.

I'm not sure what a g33 board is..or what u r connecting too.

But trying to go from pata passed SATA is idiotic ..

Quote from abducens:

I have a pata drive that I boot from and the bios gets to the windows xp screen in about 5 seconds. If I use an exact copy ( acronis) with a sata drive the bios takes 3 times as long. Its an intel brand g33 board and all drivers are up to date. any ideas? thanks

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Scataphagos

Registered: Apr 2009
Posts: 9177

04-18-12 11:59 AM

Quote from abducens:

I have a pata drive that I boot from and the bios gets to the windows xp screen in about 5 seconds. If I use an exact copy ( acronis) with a sata drive the bios takes 3 times as long. Its an intel brand g33 board and all drivers are up to date. any ideas? thanks

Shouldn't take that long.

Are you using more than one drive? Acronis copy on the 2nd drive? Is one PATA and one SATA?

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GTS

Registered: Jun 2006
Posts: 2188

04-18-12 12:09 PM

Quote from abducens:

I have a pata drive that I boot from and the bios gets to the windows xp screen in about 5 seconds. If I use an exact copy ( acronis) with a sata drive the bios takes 3 times as long. Its an intel brand g33 board and all drivers are up to date. any ideas? thanks

When you switch from PATA to SATA do you disable the PATA ports in the bios?

Wondering if the BIOS is going through an auto-detect routine trying to figure out what is connected to the PATA ports and it has to timeout before moving on to the SATA ports, I've seen Dell computers behave that way if the PATA ports are not disabled.

Or are you strictly talking about the time it takes to load Windows, post-BIOS?

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abducens

Registered: Jan 2003
Posts: 523

04-22-12 10:28 PM

it is pre bios, if I use only sata it takes way longer to boot if I use only pata. I would expect the other way around

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GTS

Registered: Jun 2006
Posts: 2188

04-22-12 11:04 PM

Quote from abducens:

it is pre bios, if I use only sata it takes way longer to boot if I use only pata. I would expect the other way around

Pre-BIOS the computer is off

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