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steps to installing new SATA drive?

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PNut12345

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just got a Seagate Barracuda 80 gig SATA drive on the forums here, and I just need to know the steps neccessary to install it. I've already got an IDE 80 gig drive in my comp, and I downloaded the SATA drivers from gigabyte's website. Do I install SATA drivers, then the HDD? Or vice versa? Any advice would be appreciated.
 
PNut12345 said:
just got a Seagate Barracuda 80 gig SATA drive on the forums here, and I just need to know the steps neccessary to install it. I've already got an IDE 80 gig drive in my comp, and I downloaded the SATA drivers from gigabyte's website. Do I install SATA drivers, then the HDD? Or vice versa? Any advice would be appreciated.
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It's *always* drivers first (so the OS can pick it up), then the HD itself. Also, you should download the latest version of SeaTools (from Seagate's Web site) if you want to make it the boot drive (if you don't have Partition Magic or a similar tool).

Having MaxBlast 4 saved me a LOT of woe with the DiamondMax, since it was replacing my boot drive (80 GB WD Caviar SE, no slouch itself).
 
Thanks, I figured that would be the order. I don't have any plans yet to make it the boot drive...that'll come with my next nuking of XP.
 
Lol tell me how are you going to install the drivers for hardware first if it isnt installed yet :) you must install the hard-drive first but have the drivers allready downloaded for it once it is seen by windows.
 
Shane said:
Lol tell me how are you going to install the drivers for hardware first if it isnt installed yet :) you must install the hard-drive first but have the drivers allready downloaded for it once it is seen by windows.
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Many drivers these days you cannot get in "pure" driver format. You're forced to use a .exe file anyway, so why not install it before your hardware?

(Note: I consider "pure" driver format to be a .inf file and misc. that you can right-click and hit "install")
 
either way..

turn off the machine ..hook up you drive .. boot > load drivers> reboot if necessary,, goto disk management and format or do what ever you want to do
 
TeeJayHoward said:
Many drivers these days you cannot get in "pure" driver format. You're forced to use a .exe file anyway, so why not install it before your hardware?

(Note: I consider "pure" driver format to be a .inf file and misc. that you can right-click and hit "install")
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The .INF format is what Intel uses for their SATA drivers (in fact, *all* their Windows drivers), fortunately, Intel includes the SATA drivers with the *chipset* drivers, which makes installing such a drive from scratch pretty darn simple (if you have an 875P chipset, that is). The only reason things took a bit longer (three hours in my case) was because I was making the new drive my boot drive, and the old drive, a mere 80 GB, was almost full. (Most of the three hours was used in data transfer.)

Advantage to having native SATA support on your motherboard: things get into the OS *very quickly*. I used to have to wait two seconds in the *handoff* between the BIOS and Windows; now, it's less than a second. Windows *itself* boots faster, also. (The new drive has an 8 MB cache; but so did the drive it replaced, so that isn't it.) I'm going to kickstart SANDRA and do some benching.
 
heck I stuck my new sata II drive on a Abit NF7-S2G and not only did the BIOS see it, but windows XP pro saw it, no driver needed.
 
compulsivephreek said:
heck I stuck my new sata II drive on a Abit NF7-S2G and not only did the BIOS see it, but windows XP pro saw it, no driver needed.
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What version of Windows, and which Service Packs (if any) are included? *All* versions of Windows XP include native support for Intel 8xx-chipset SATA (especially those motherboards with the ICH5 southbridge), and slipstreaming Service Packs 1 and 2 adds the 9xx series. (Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 includes both Service Packs, which means it also includes native support for Intel-chipset SATA.)
 
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