Installing SATA hard drive

Jet · 11-30-2005, 03:03 PM

I am installing a SATA hard drive in my new system, and I didn't buy a floppy drive. Do I need one for installing the drivers? or can I just use a cd-r with the drivers burnt onto it?

suprasteve · 11-30-2005, 09:42 PM

You might not need either, depends on your bios and/or motherboard. I have an intel 925xe chipset on a foxconn motherboard and the sata was plug and play. If you do need drivers, anything new enough to have sata will run the files off cd most likely

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Jet Diamond Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 5,288	Installing SATA hard drive I am installing a SATA hard drive in my new system, and I didn't buy a floppy drive. Do I need one for installing the drivers? or can I just use a cd-r with the drivers burnt onto it? __________________ Macbook/Intel Core Duo 1.83Ghz/2GB DDR2 667/60GB HD/OSX 10.4.11/160GB 3.5" Firewire External/160GB Maxtor One Touch 4 Mini External/

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11-30-2005, 09:42 PM	#2 (permalink)
suprasteve Diamond Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Atlanta Posts: 1,355	You might not need either, depends on your bios and/or motherboard. I have an intel 925xe chipset on a foxconn motherboard and the sata was plug and play. If you do need drivers, anything new enough to have sata will run the files off cd most likely