Re: Master or Slave


You will probably need to perform a "repair" installation of XP, due to
hardware changes, and especially to use the F6 option of the XP installer to
feed new SATA drivers to XP. Otherwise, XP will probably not even see this
hard drive. These drivers must be on a floppy, not on a CD. The drivers
come from the motherboard maker, not the hard drive maker.

In general the copy of XP CD (if any) that came with the Dell will probably
not support a repair install. Further, it probably will not support a clean
install, except on that same model of Dell. This is one of the "features"
of OEM-type PCs with XP (and Vista). The operating system is not
tranaferrable the way it might have been under win98.

Thus, you will probably need to purchase a new "retail" XP CD to have any
hope of swaping the hard dirve into new hardware.

If you purchase only an OEM CD, then you will be able to do a clean install
(i.e., format first, lose all data, then install XP).

Note that even with an retail CD the repair installation may fail, and then
you will be left with no option except a clean install.

Thus, BACKUP all personal data off of the hard drive BEFORE attempting any
of this. Ditto for any programs you purchased via download; save their
installer and any email with license key, unlock code, etc.

Then, read the motherboard manual, twice, or more. Pay particular attention
to any words about a "raid" controller for SATA. In some cases such a
controller will be smart enough to know that a single internal hard drive
should be treated as just a plain disk. In other cases you may need to
"build" a "raid array" containing just one disk. In the latter case, look
for some comnbination of keys (e.g., CTRL-F) to enter the controller setup.
This usually appears towards ther end of the BIOS checks. Note also that
the controller setup may be separate form the BIOS setup. It is on my ASUS
motherboard.

As for testing wther the motherboard can "see" the hard drive, first watch
the BIOS checks. Second, try booting from a diagnostic CD form the hard
drive maker. For Seagate, try their SeaTools CD (image you burn to CD,
which is bootable). It can "see" and test hard drives, no matter what their
format, or even if no format, if they are connnected properly and recognized
by the BIOS. (I they are not, then XP won't work either.) Caution: Avoid
any testing option that sounds like "low level format" or even just plain
format.

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools


"attilathehun1" <attilathehun1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:56D2A33E-9AE8-404A-8DD6-ED86E81CEA8F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
It turns out I only have one IDE connector on this motherboard and a bunch
of
sata connectors. Right now I want to get this PC up and running so I'm
gonig
to use the old hard drive that I was using on my Dell 8300. This drive is
a
Seagate Baracuda 7200.7 80 GB hard drive.
Hell with trying to push it. I'm using 2 optical drives. One as the master
and the other as a slave. The master will be the burner and the slave to
play
games.
The hard drive is going to be a sata. I've never used one before. I better
follow the motherboard manual and learn it now.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, attilathehun1
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attilathehun1


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