Help, installing SATA HardDisk .. Please !

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Motherboard gigabyte 8INXP

I have connected my new sata drive to the mother boards SATA_1 port (ON
BOARD) and added power.

Do I need to use the small adapter that is supplied, or is this only needed
if external SATA drives are being used ?

Powering up to PC shows no reference to the SATA DRIVE.

Turned on the PC, the drive spins up, but how do I know if its been
detected ?

How do I add support to XP Pro, already installed ?

Can I clone from an ATA drive to the SATA drive ?

Thanks
 
TOM said:
Motherboard gigabyte 8INXP

I have connected my new sata drive to the mother boards SATA_1 port
(ON BOARD) and added power.

Do I need to use the small adapter that is supplied, or is this only
needed if external SATA drives are being used ?
Click to expand...

If it is a power adapter NO. Only use one power supply or you will damage
the drive.
Powering up to PC shows no reference to the SATA DRIVE.
Click to expand...

Have you installed the SATA drivers for your motherboard. If not take a trip
to their site to get the latest ones.
 
Well if ever there was a reason not to try upgrading a PC when your tired
!!

I spent 1 hour trying to get the drive working...

Then realised I'd not enabled SATA support in my Bios !!! :)

Soon as I did, the drive was found.

I used ghost 2002 and cloned my old disk across and it seems to be running
fine.

I now have :

SATA 120GB SATA Controller
PATA 80GB Primary Master Promise ATA 133 Controller
DVD-RW Primary Master onboard ATA 100 Controller
DVD-ROM Primary Slave Promise ATA 133 Controller
CD-RW Primary Slave onboard ATA 100 Controller

This seems to be working fine, booting from the SATA Drive.

Thanks
 
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