250 gig hard drive

[Craig]

How do I load an OS to a 250 gig hard drive, is there anything special I
need to do? I had a 36 gig SATA drive in its place working fine, pulled it
out to use a 250 SATA drive, and now I can't get it to load. I have done
all the driver loads during set up, it just comes up with an error every
time. Any help?

Craig

 

[Jerry]

First thing to check - does your BIOS see the full 250Gb?

 

[jimbo]

How do I load an OS to a 250 gig hard drive, is there anything special I
need to do? I had a 36 gig SATA drive in its place working fine, pulled it
out to use a 250 SATA drive, and now I can't get it to load. I have done
all the driver loads during set up, it just comes up with an error every
time. Any help?

Craig

Did you partition and format the new 250 GB drive?

jimbo

 

[Thomas Wendell]

What's the error?


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[Craig]

Thanks for the input, I finally figured it out. For some reason, I assume
just because of the larger drive than I was using before, I had to enable
the raid function in the bios and set up the single drive as a striping
configuration. Once I did that and nothing else, it worked perfect. before
that, the bios did recognize its entire 250 size, but it just wouldn't
work - I got an error saying "error loading OS". Anyway, problem solved.

Thanks everyone,

Craig