Sata Hard drive issues??

[iiaixchangeii]

Hello everyone im haveing a wierd problem. I just upgraded my system and i am haveing problems with the new hard drive. I recently purchased a 2.4 AMD athalon Dual core, Kingston Hyperx 2 GB ddr 400 (pc 3200), ATI Radeon x800gt (Old card), SATA Seagate 320gb and a new 600 watt power supply. Anyway when installed everything it started up great but when i went to install windows i kept getting an error to install windows xp pro disk about 75 percent through the installation. I got an error saying something about the format of the HD. Then i tried installing windows xp 64 bit addition and half way through that i was getting a black screen and it would just freeze up there. I havent tried since then im kinda just using it as a slave drive for now. I never seen this problem before and i dont know to much about the sata hd's so any input would be awesome. And another question just out of curiosity i would appreciate some input on the sata's and if its even worth it for me to mess with it. Will it even make a noticeable difference. Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, JC

 

[The_Other_One]

Please quote the error you're getting, or just search on google. There's where I'd probably start anyway

As for the performance of SATA drives, they are typically slightly faster than older IDE drives. They are also easier to setup, and I beleive most can be hot-swapped. However, you probably wouldn't notice any difference between the two under normal usage, if the drives were otherwise spec'ed the same...

 

[yugboy]

IDE to SATA

I just built a new system. My prob is that I have a ton of info on an old HD that I want to keep. It also has a OS on it. It is a IDE drive. My question is can I install my OS on the new HD. Can I then use a IDE to SATA converter to get to the old info? Will I have a jumper problem? Will the fact that I have 2 OSs on 2 HD cause a conflict? Sorry if these are dumb questions or if they had asked before. Thhanks for any help.

Guy