Question : Imaging XP IDE vs SATA

I am currently working on a XP image and building it on an older machine with an IDE hard drive. I have sealed the image and went to test it on a newer machine that has a SATA drive. At first I got a hal.dll error. After I got that to go away the computer got a little farther into the boot but blue screened. I am pretty sure that it has something to do with the image being built on and IDE drive and then being loaded on a SATA drive. I changed the BIOS setting on the newer machine for the hard drive from AHCI to ATA. I guess what I need to know is how and what I need to do in the image so that the computer does not have any problem booting up no matter what kind of hard drive it has. Thanks in advance!

Answer : Imaging XP IDE vs SATA

Ok I figured it out. Here is what I did. The computer comes straight from Dell has a fat partition and a regular partition on the same drive. What I did was boot to the XP setup cd and acted like I was going to reinstall Windows. When I go to the select partition screen I deleted the main partition and the fat partition which combined them into one again. I then proceeded to use the disk to format the drive in NTFS. Once that was done I stopped the install process and rebooted to begin my reimaging. After I loaded the image and rebooted it came up fine. I figured that fat partition had something to do with it just not sure what. Thanks for all the help and I will be awarding points soon, even though I ultimately solved my problem I think a few of you made good contributions.