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3rd HD and SATA question

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I have 3 IDE harddrives I have the 2 of them on the primary IDE controler and they are looking fine and working. I have the 3rd as a slave on the secondary IDE controller and the CD-rom as the master.

I can't seem to get WindowsXP SP1 to reconize the 3rd drive which is a 200gig Seagate drive.

I can see it in device manager, but its not coming up in "my computer"

I have switched configurations around and what not and i still cant get it to come up even if i have just the Main boot HD and the seagate hooked up i can't see it still.

Also my other question is, my computer also has SATA. If i purchase some SATA HDs and plug them in will it interfere with my IDE hds or with the anything on the IDE controllers?

BTW computer is a Dell 400SC running Winxp SP1
with 2gigs of ECC ram.
 
right click my computer then manage. Select Disk Management. If it is a new drive it should show it as unallocated. If so right click action then new partition to create a partition(s) on the drive. After the partition(s) have been created and formatted it will show up w/ a drive letter.

The only interference with adding a SATA drive would be if it was higher in the boot order (or lower if trying to use it as a boot drive) than the PATA drives. Usually just a setting in the BIOS.

<edit: added sata info>
 
that is such a beatiful response.

Thanks for the help.

-M

EDIT: Does it really matter for a brand spanking new drive if its formatted quickly or the slow way?
 
anytime.
Someone will correct me if I'm wrong but it doesn't matter. I always quick format.
 
I have been told off of a few technicians that it is better to do a full format when the drive is brand new, as it may save a few problems in the future. I dont know how true this is, but I always just spend the extra 10minutes or so doing it.
 
Rereading this thread my last post looks pretty bad. What it should have said is someone will correct me if I am wrong. It doesn't matter which format you use. The wording made it sound as if I didn't care other's opinions and that is not the case :p

RE: Memphis' post I have never heard that, but it does not mean it isn't true...
Can anyone confirm or deny?
 
quick format means it just initializes the MFT. "full" format writes out inodes all across the disk. then there's "real" full format, which writes out MFT, inodes, and zeroes in between, so every byte on disk is written. There's no real advantage unless working with dodgy hardware.
 
just do the full format, i dont think it matters though, unless you switched file systems
 
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