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If the OS is in fact Windows, it BSODs if it has no drivers for the new mass storage controler aka panic. All you have to do is to assure that the correct drivers for the new IDE or SCSI controller are installed before you change the hardware. I successfully converted IDE to SCSI(and vice-versa) disks many times on Windows 2000 and XP

Asus FTP Server os offline or whatever If anyone kind enough to post a link to this util, my many thanks in advance.

Just downloaded the file. Can grab it here: http://maxpt.no.sapo.pt/download/asusupd32806e.exe.zip Download and rename the file. remove the .zip as the file is as executable

Yes, It's Liveware 1 and the driver is the one from windows update, witch I had some problems with