Re: New HDD Installation

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Large drives need SP 2 and a Bios that recognizes the large drive.
The drive will have to stay on the pci card.
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Ronald Sommer

"Andrew E." <eckrichco@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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: With SP2 installed the pci card really isnt needed,youre MB IDE
controller
: should be fine.Also,if you do stick with maxtor,you probably need to
: configure
: it in the BIOS,resetting the CMOS would'nt hurt either.Also,setting aside
the
: old hd is/was a v.poor recomendation,set it as slave to new hd,or move to
: other IDE connection,set the jumper pins,then set as a paging file for
: virtual
: memory in xp.One other item,if the wdc hd is solo on a IDE cable,it uses
no
: jumper pins at all.
:
: "JohnH" wrote:
:
: > I bought a Western Digital 160GB Caviar SE EIDE Drive. My motherboard
is
: > older so I was instructed to add a Maxtor SATO/150 PCI Card so the full
: > capacity of the HDD would be detected. I connected it and copied the old
: > drive over to it. After completion I was instructed to disconnect the
old
: > and put the new in it's place. Upon restart it ask for a boot disk to
be
: > installed. When I bought the system it had Windows ME on it and I do
not
: > have a software disk but I was given a restore disk. I later upgraded
to
: > Windows XP w/ SP2. Can I use the restore disk or the Windows XP upgrade
disk
: > as the boot disc. The support from Western Digital states that it may
need
: > to be done and some not, so I am confused as to how to make this as
quick and
: > painless as posible. I also would like to know if disabling the the
primary
: > IDE off the motherboard in the CMOS would help too.

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