Question About SATA

TheKeVo

TheKeVo

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I'm on my new computer now and space is running out fast now that i can play more games.. so i have this 80gb western digital 7200 rpm hdd.
What preparations should i make to install it? now that i'm on the computer already and dont need to put it on a floppy
 
just plug it in :)
if you aren't installing windows to an SATA drive there isn't much you need to do.
 
how do y0u create a full partition?



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I plugged it in and it doesnt even show up in "My Computer"
:confused:
The jumpers are :::[:] in the spot all the way to the right if you were looking at the hard drive from teh back, right side up
 
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set it to slave - refer to the diagram at the top of the hard drive. i assumed u used the same ide cable as teh other hard drive. actually does it even pass bios if the jumpers are screwed?
 
How do you have jumpers on an SATA drive?
The drive needs to be detected by the BIOS and you need to partition the drive before it will show up in My Computer. To do this right click on My Computer and pick 'Manage'

When you see the Computer Management window, click the Disk Management item listed underneath the Storage heading. You then see the main Disk Management pane in the right side of the Computer Management window.

Unallocated space appears as an Unknown Partition in the Disk Management diagram, you can use it to create a new partition in some or all of the space. To create your new partition, you need to right-click on the part of the diagram that represents the unallocated space, the unallocated space has a black stripe running along the top and then choose the "New Partition" on the menu that appears.

1 The Type - Primary, extended, or logical partition. Your hard drive can contain up to four primary partitions, or three primary partitions and one extended partition. Choose the primary partition if you are created a partition in which you will install an operating system (this is unusual situation). Choose extended if you plan to create several logical partitions within it. The logical partition type is available only if you choose to create the new partition in an extended partition with some free space.

2 The Size - You may use the entire available space, or leave room for more partitions. The Partition Wizard will displays the minimum and maximum size for the partition, this is based on the space where it will be stored

3 The Drive letter or path - Two operating system on your computer. You may select any unused letter, but the wizard will offer the next available drive letter. To Mount in the following empty NTFS Folder, you need an NTFS partition with a drive letter on the same machine. You may select the "Do Not Assign A Drive Letter Or Drive Path" option, this will let Windows assign a letter later, usually the default drive letter.

4 The File system - The default is NTFS (recommended), but you can use FAT32 (not recommended) as well. Both NTFS and FAT32 will efficiently utilize disk space on large drives.
 

This is what's there (if you cant see the image it just shows dvd-rom and my 40gb hd not my 80gb sata. where do i go from here? or is it not showing something that it's supposed to show?

ummm dave... we're talking about sata not ide
 
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It doesn't show up beneath the other drives when you scroll down does it? Have you checked to see if it is recognized in BIOS? You might have to change some settings in there if this is your first SATA drive.
 
Yeti said:
It doesn't show up beneath the other drives when you scroll down does it? Have you checked to see if it is recognized in BIOS? You might have to change some settings in there if this is your first SATA drive.
Click to expand...

theres a scroll bar, so im thinking it may be there
 
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