Seagate or WD?

[tralalala]

i have an IDE.. no sense at all why it wouldnt work.

the guy at the shop put his wondows on the other HDD, and it worked (showed both the one it was installed on and the other).. meaning it must be something with my windows.


i think i'll reformat the whole PC.. do you think it'll work?

[Virtualbody1234]

Don't reformat!

it doesnt have jumpers - its SATA.. no slave/master on it.

i have an IDE..

These 2 posts don't match!

It's either IDE or SATA. It can't be both.

Check the jumpers.




No wonder we have problems helping you.

[tralalala]

the HDD which i am using now (the one with windows on it...) has its jumper on SSC.

the new one, doesnt have a jumper.........

now what?

[Virtualbody1234]

Tell us what you really have?

[tralalala]

look, ive chatted on some support IRC channel, and i can tell you that both are SATA, they both show up on the BIOS screen, and I have changed booting order, and got into the windows the guy at the shop installed, and on that one, both show up on device manager.

both are connected to the mobo...


so, it seems something is screwy with my windows..


if i reformat - can i delete just the partition windows was installed on, then merge that partition with the other 3 i divided the orginal in to, without losing any data, and install XP on the new HDD?

[digmen1]

Installing a SATA drive is not easy if you already have a machine set up with an IDE drive. Cos your bios will not recognise it

I had to re-install windows - get to the repair console step and then insert my floppy disk with the Sata/Raid drivers on it.

Its quite a scary process.

It would be best to backup all your files and do a clean install of XP.

By the way SATA drives are much faster than IDE.

And the cable are nice and thin too.

Regards

Digby

[dsera]

Installing a SATA drive is not easy if you already have a machine set up with an IDE drive. Cos your bios will not recognise it

I had to re-install windows - get to the repair console step and then insert my floppy disk with the Sata/Raid drivers on it.

Its quite a scary process.

It would be best to backup all your files and do a clean install of XP.

By the way SATA drives are much faster than IDE.

And the cable are nice and thin too.

Regards

Digby

SATA is a complete pain in the ass but once you get it working, it's a cinch to work with. My problem wasn't my SATA hard drives, it was my Plextor Burner. I never did get it to work properly so I gave up and went with IDE for that drive. It also greatly depends on your motherboard as to how easily Windows will see things.

[tralalala]

ive updated my post.. i have found that BOTH are SATA.

and i asked another question: if i reformat - can i delete just the partition windows was installed on, then merge that partition with the other 3 i divided the orginal in to, without losing any data, and install XP on the new HDD?

[dsera]

ive updated my post.. i have found that BOTH are SATA.

and i asked another question: if i reformat - can i delete just the partition windows was installed on, then merge that partition with the other 3 i divided the orginal in to, without losing any data, and install XP on the new HDD?

To merge partitions without losing data you need a third party software such as Partition Magic.

[tralalala]

have reformatted and got the new HDD recognized... now its just a bitch to reinstall everything.