Sataii

[Pedro_The_Swift]

anything special/different about starting up a PC for the first time with a SATA2 HDD?
no raid--

[WhiteD3]

Don't think so. I've got 2 in my HTPC under XP Pro and don't recall any dramas.

[HangOver]

anything special/different about starting up a PC for the first time with a SATA2 HDD?
no raid--

None at all, except depending on the MOBO if you have an IDE installed as well it might default to the IDE, go figure?

What you might want to look out for is if you have a Maxtor drive, (some others too) they have a very small jumper on the back near the power socket. It reduces the speed from 3Gb to 1.5Gb for older systems.
If your mobo accepts the new 3Gb HDD remove the jumper.

[Pedro_The_Swift]

will check----;)


thats a negative.:D

[Debacle]

[QUOTE=HangOver;655051]None at all, except depending on the MOBO if you have an IDE installed as well it might default to the IDE, go figure?



I have this problem, I have both a sata and ide drive and although both drives work fine and can access them, I cannot get it to boot off the sata. It is not an option in the bios.

[HangOver]

[quote=HangOver;655051]None at all, except depending on the MOBO if you have an IDE installed as well it might default to the IDE, go figure?



I have this problem, I have both a sata and ide drive and although both drives work fine and can access them, I cannot get it to boot off the sata. It is not an option in the bios.

Is you SATA connected to SATA port 0?
Try setting your IDE to slave also try it on both master and primary IDE sockets

[WhiteD3]

[QUOTE=HangOver;655051]None at all, except depending on the MOBO if you have an IDE installed as well it might default to the IDE, go figure?



I have this problem, I have both a sata and ide drive and although both drives work fine and can access them, I cannot get it to boot off the sata. It is not an option in the bios.

Using XP? I seem to remember you have to go into Disk Management and set the drive up.

[HangOver]

[quote=jbarracl;655113]

Using XP? I seem to remember you have to go into Disk Management and set the drive up.

Yes you are correct you can do that with additional drives to an existing system. If it's a newly installed or re-install of XP it is usually configured during the install/setup.

[Grizzly_Adams]

Yes but what it does is boot off the IDE then points to the SATA.

In some of the older BIOS's it wasn't an option to boot from the SATA so you needed an IDE drive to boot from (well really it's just loading a boot loader, but lets not get overly-complicated :D ).

[Debacle]

Thanks for the ideas guys, will check it out when I can be bothered pulling off the side cover and having a look.

Sorry about the Hi-Jack Pedro.

[Pedro_The_Swift]

hey,, its all good:D