SATA hard drive

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My OS is on an IDE drive. I have added a new 205gb SATA hard drive to my
computer. My BIOS sees the new drive. Hardware Manager sees the drive. The
drive doesn't show up in My Computer. How do I find it? How do I save to that
new drive?
 
Mackeg31 said:
My OS is on an IDE drive. I have added a new 205gb SATA hard drive to my
computer. My BIOS sees the new drive. Hardware Manager sees the drive. The
drive doesn't show up in My Computer. How do I find it? How do I save to that
new drive?
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Is the new SATA drive seen in Disk Management? If so, has this drive
been partitioned and formatted? Unformatted drives do not appear in
My Computer. Partition, format and assign drive letter(s) to the SATA
drive.
 
Another thing to keep in mind is that the SATA driver for your board might
not be installed. Look on your cd from the MB manufacturer and look for a
SATA driver. Most of the time these drivers are installed via floppy disks
when the OS is installed. However, the setup disk usually
hase a " setup.exe" file along with the SATA driver so it can be installed
from windows. But as said before if Disk Management sees it and Windows does
not the the driver is most likely installed and you need to partition and
format the drive.If windows cannot see it you will need to download the
Hardrive setup program from the Drive Manufacturer and usually burn to a
cd, after that set your bios to boot from he CD and follow the
instructions.Since you will be working on partitioning and formating a SATA
drive you DO NOT want to install the drive overlay- just do a simple
partition and format. You can set up the entore drive as extra storage with
as many logical partitions that you fell you need.. Best to format to NTFS
with 4K(default) clusters. With NTFS partitions you can set the cluster size
as low as 512 bytes but this really can cause a lot of disk thrashing and
very slow defragmenting. It is notworth it to go to 512 just to save a
little disk space (IMHO). These views are my own so try to read up and see
if you agree.,,Aloha
 
How can I use a SATA HD?

I buy HD's when they are on rebate. How can I know is a SATA will work with
my HP PC with XP Home.

Is there a test to check if I can use dual channel memory?

THanks.
 
Computers like HP come with Manuals....that you are actually supposed to
read.
In this "manual" or even the HP website where you can download a manual for
your "specific" machine it will tell you if you have SATA connection it will
also tell you if your chipset is capable of Dual Channel and which slots to
use for it to actually work.....as well 2 identical Ram Modules.
peter
 
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