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Old 02-25-2008, 06:20 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Upgraded from 40gb SATA to 500gb SATA hard drive (slave)...Windows Xp can see the new drive but cannot format it for some reason..is this an OS issue or a motherboard (SY-CK8 Dragon Plus) limitation issue...thank you...Frank from Montreal .
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Old 02-25-2008, 06:49 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Does it give you an error message?
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You can't have SATA drives in master-slave configurations, can you?
If i'm wrong, tell me. But I've NEVER seen any of this master-slave stuff with SATA drives.
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No you can't but when I see it I just assume they hooked it up to a different channel and are using a different HD for their OS

I had an Asus motherboard that labelled channels 1 and 3 as master and 2 and 4 as slave though.
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U R right about the master slave comment...but y am i not able to format the 500gb drive ?
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the only error msg. i receive is "cannot format this drive"...
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Ok. I assume you are using disk management to do it? Do you have the option to initialize the drive? It may be grouped with the option to create a partition, which you have to do before you can format it.
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