Hard Drive Install issue

sup2jzgte

sup2jzgte

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I just bought a Hitachi 80G Hard Drive and I jus installed it (physically). I installed it as my slave drive, because I already have a 40G Primary drive which holds all my operating files and what not. So after I put the drive I went to install the drivers from the disk AND from online and for some reason I cant install the drivers. Here are the following screen shots of what happened when I try to install the drivers:

Picture 1: My original drive is the Maxtor 40G, but for some reason it is showing both drives are the Maxtor


Picture 2: This is the message I get when I go to check the drivers


Picture 3: During file transfer


Picture 4: The error message I get after its done transfering files



Picture 5: This what I see after its all done, the highlighted drive is my primary and iti s working fine


Im not sure what to do? I have tried to get the drivers both from the CD and the internet and neither work. So does anyone know what I can do to fix this?
 
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I never even knew you needed drivers for the HDD before :confused:

Whenever I have installed my HDD's (PATA, or SATA) I have never needed drivers for them to actually work...
 
Rambo said:
I never even knew you needed drivers for the HDD before :confused:

Whenever I have installed my HDD's (PATA, or SATA) I have never needed drivers for them to actually work...
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Maybe Im just a moron, but how can I test if I need them or not? Im not sure how to transfeer files from the 40 to the 80 to test it.
 
Everytime I have ever installed a hard drive, I just make sure it's either on slave or cable select jumper on the drive and hook it up and go....shouldn't be much to it. If it is a new drive, you need to format it before trying to use it though. I always format anyway if I just get them.
 
JSquier said:
Everytime I have ever installed a hard drive, I just make sure it's either on slave or cable select jumper on the drive and hook it up and go....shouldn't be much to it. If it is a new drive, you need to format it before trying to use it though. I always format anyway if I just get them.
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Yeah I formatted it without a problem. Im just going to forget about this whole driver thing, because I dont think it matters, but I do have another question. Say I want all my downloads from this point on to go to the new drive, how would I go about setting this up?
 
sup2jzgte said:
Yeah I formatted it without a problem. Im just going to forget about this whole driver thing, because I dont think it matters, but I do have another question. Say I want all my downloads from this point on to go to the new drive, how would I go about setting this up?
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If you're using FireFox, go to:

Tools ==> Options ==> Downloads

Then, select the "Save all files to this folder" radio Button, then select trhe drive location ;)

If you're using IE, whenever you go to download something it should ask you where to save it.

:)
 
When I installed my PATA drive and tried to make it my slave drive (slave to my SATA HD) I had to reinstall windows with the sata drivers so my PATA drive wouldn't default to master. I don't know if that helps you or not...
 
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