Help with Harddrive

If you are planning to run the ide as the primary you would need to use the disk management tool in Administrative Tools>Computer Management to partition and format the SATA drive after the drivers are installed. That would then make the drive accessible as well as visible in Windows Explorer and MyComputer. Otherwise you shouldn't see any problem having the extra drive.
 
I think your better off using your SATA drive as primary (i think itll make windows go faster). You may have to load some drivers at the setup though...
 
Yes, everything would work out fine.
To Angel: SATA drives aren't that much faster than PATA drives... And you don't need drivers for all motherboards. A recent build I made for someone ran a SATA drive in IDE mode. Windows Setup wouldn't find the drive otherwise(The motherbaord didn't come with a RAID driver disk to try)
 
I had a friend here that couldn't get XP to even detect a SATA drive that he intended to use as a stand alone drive. It was clearly seen in the bios but the XP installer didn't see it at all. This was seen even with having more then one driver disk made up.
 
If the HDD is detected in the BIOS, it confirms that the HDD isnt defective. Did he install the necessary drivers during the winXP setup?( The drivers usually come with your MOBO)
 
The drivers were apparently on the cd only since no floppy came with the board. A repeat download and additional floppies prepared each failed. The XP installer refused to see the drive even after taking the drivers off of the 3 1/2s made up. He hasn't bothered since I loaned out an older ide drive to get the rest of the system running while still under dealer warranty. The drive still sits in the box it was shipped in.
 
Angel.of.Death said:
If the HDD is detected in the BIOS, it confirms that the HDD isnt defective. Did he install the necessary drivers during the winXP setup?( The drivers usually come with your MOBO)
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Yeah, pretty much, barring mechanical failure. But not always the case. I did service a computer not long ago where the drive was detected, but it was NFG. It could no longer access half the data on the drive and I couldn't repair it, as much as I tried. XP said it was not formatted, even though it had all their work on it.

Other than that you're right.
 
Of course. You always have to have the last word for fear that someone could rattle your superiority cage.

But I hate to tell you that there is every chance in the world that it mechanically failed, especially being a WD HDD. They are famous for it. It doesn't matter how new it is.
 
SirKenin said:
Of course. You always have to have the last word for fear that someone could rattle your superiority cage.

But I hate to tell you that there is every chance in the world that it mechanically failed, especially being a WD HDD. They are famous for it. It doesn't matter how new it is.
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To date I haven't seen one WD drive fail here while having seen Seagate and Maxtors quit. The real problem is something you won't even know is that the owner simply gave up after the first try with the driver disks. The drive was clearly seen in the bios post tests when the system was repeated started each time with a different floppy and fresh download to rule a bad disk or bad download out.
Oh by the way your "inferiority cage" just got rattled on another thread. :P Something you never thought was getting the facts there before...
 
PC eye and SirKenin, will you please stop bitching at each other and answer the question in hnad. If it has already been answered please dont post in this thread anymore. go settle your differences elsewhere away from this forum.

dragon
 
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