Western Digital Caviar WD1600JB 160GB Hard Drive ......A7N8X-E Dx

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On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 15:28:09 -0400, Wildbill <> wrote: Success!!!
After the excellent advice I got in this group, I installed it and
created five equal partetions..............no problem!

THANKS LOADS GROUP!

Wildbill


My 40Gig Hard Drive has filled up fast taking pictures of my new
granddaughter, so I ordered a Western Digital Caviar WD1600JB 160GB
Hard Drive . Got a good deal on it from TigerDirect $89.99 after
rebate! Or was it a good deal???

After readind how to install literature on the web, sounds like a
nightmare.........ATA,SATA,EIDE,IDE,RAID.......Formatting,
Partetioning......... Now I am told that Windows won't recognise a
drive larger than 132G. I am just an uneducated country boy, and
really don't understand all of this. I think I will just send it back
when it arrives! Not such a good deal after all!
A7N8X-E Deluxe
AMD Athalon XP 2800+ Barton Core
2 X- Xerox (512 MB PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
Geforce FX 5200 128MB
Windows XP Home SP1
3Dvision TV/FM/Video Capture
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A7N8X-E Deluxe Revision 2.xx BIOS 1008
AMD Athalon XP 2800+ Barton Core
2 X- Xerox (512 MB PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
Geforce FX 5200 128MB
Windows XP Home SP1
3Dvision TV/FM/Video Capture
DiamondMax Plus 8 40GB Hard Drive
Western Digital Caviar WD1600JB 160GB Hard Drive
 
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:27:53 -0400, Wildbill <> wrote: Oh Yeah.Do I
have to format the partetions?? I used PartetionMagic 8.0 to create
them, but did not see anything about formatting.

Wildbill



A7N8X-E Deluxe Revision 2.xx BIOS 1008
AMD Athalon XP 2800+ Barton Core
2 X- Xerox (512 MB PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
Geforce FX 5200 128MB
Windows XP Home SP1
3Dvision TV/FM/Video Capture
DiamondMax Plus 8 40GB Hard Drive
Western Digital Caviar WD1600JB 160GB Hard Drive
 
I and two friends bought the same a7n8x-dlx. One had a serial ata. I
purchased an inexpensive 160gb EIDE and bought a $20 serial ata adapter
(later). The guy with the serial ata had problems getting the OS to
install, at some point in the boot up he was supposed to stick in the
asus cd with the driver for the serial ata. I think he eventually got
it to work. I installed original XP on the EIDE and later used the
serial adapter to free up that ide slot. Later, my son decided to
reinstall xp and it failed. He took off the adapter then installed then
put it back on.
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Ok, I see your point. On my system XPsp1 was installed on a 80gigIDE
drive. I then added the 160gig sata drive - copied the C partition to
it using Drive image 2002 and reset bios to boot off the sata drive.
No sata drivers were installed/used.

If you are INSTALLING XP directly to the sata drive it needs the
driver for XP to be able to see the drive.

Locust
 
You always have to format a new partition. Not hard your partitioning
prog will help you do that.

Locust
 
What do you mean by slipstream??

Locust

I disagree with the partitioning part myself. I built a new system for my
son from scratch with a A7N8X Deluxe using a WD SATA 200 GB drive. The OS
is XP pro with SP1 slipstreamed. I formatted with one partition and the
computer recognizes the full drive.
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Just noticed that TIGER DIRECT sent me a Mainstream model instead of
the High Preformance one.Model BB 2MB buffer instead of Model JB 8MB
buffer..........but of course they did not make a mistake! OH yes, I
paid an extra $10.00 for the cheapy!

I probibally would not have known the differance, except I had to
remove it to get the serial number for the rebate form. After some
argument, I was begrudgenly given an RMA#, but would have to do
without a hard drive for 5 to 7 days. I will live with the cheapy I
guess.

Wildbill


On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:27:53 -0400, Wildbill <> wrote: Oh Yeah.Do I
have to format the partetions?? I used PartetionMagic 8.0 to create
them, but did not see anything about formatting.

Wildbill



A7N8X-E Deluxe Revision 2.xx BIOS 1008
AMD Athalon XP 2800+ Barton Core
2 X- Xerox (512 MB PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
Geforce FX 5200 128MB
Windows XP Home SP1
3Dvision TV/FM/Video Capture
DiamondMax Plus 8 40GB Hard Drive
Western Digital Caviar WD1600JB 160GB Hard Drive
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A7N8X-E Deluxe Revision 2.xx BIOS 1008
AMD Athalon XP 2800+ Barton Core
2 X- Xerox (512 MB PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
Geforce FX 5200 128MB
Windows XP Home SP1
3Dvision TV/FM/Video Capture
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 40GB Hard Drive
Western Digital Caviar WD1600BB 160GB Hard Drive
........and the list goes on.........
 
Not true. I installed XP directly to a WD Raptor SATA drive without
installing any special drivers.

Al
 
I too am sure it is possible but perhaps a little too much for me. You can
also apply all the Hotfixes during the install process as well but I haven't
tried that myself.
 
Ben I can personally say that Slipstreaming works great. MS started making
this possible with Win2K at SP2. I have used it for both Win2K and WinXP
and it works great. As I said in another post you can also set it to apply
all the Hotfixes(at least the ones that have come out before you install)
during install as well but I myself haven't tried this yet.
 
What I did was just format 20gig of it for my C drive. It only recognized 131 gig of it in the install process. Once WinXP
was installed, I got SP1, and after the reboot, it recognized the full drive and I formatted the rest.
 
Jbob said:
Ben I can personally say that Slipstreaming works great. MS started
making this possible with Win2K at SP2. I have used it for both Win2K
and WinXP and it works great. As I said in another post you can also set
it to apply all the Hotfixes(at least the ones that have come out before
you install) during install as well but I myself haven't tried this yet.
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I know, I've done it. I have Win2K SP4 slipstreamed.

Ben
 
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