Installing a 2nd SATA Drive

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woody

I have a Win XP system with 1GB of Memory and an existing WD SATA 80 GB
HDD with a 40 GB ATA HDD. I recently purchased and installed a 300GB
Seagate SATA HDD which shows up in the BIOS and under XP System info as a
297 GB HDD but is not partitioned or formatted.
My Computer shows the existing SATA which is partitioned as C, D,and E,
the ATA HDD as H, and CD and DVD drives as F:, and G:.
Everything seems normal but I need a little advice about Partitioning and
formatting the new serial drive.
When I installed my first serial drive, I formatted the
drive using my OEM XP disk. I also added a serial driver supplied with
the drive. I didn't get a serial driver with the second drive but after
reading the info on the Seagate site it appears I don't need to add any
drivers in XP.
I think I can use the XP OEM to format, but I can't recall if I
partitioned the HDD with the XP disk.
How will it initially appear up as it is not partitioned or formatted and
can I use the XP disk to Partition it.
One more thing the other serial drive is formated as a NTFS and the ATA
is a FAT32.

TIA
 
C

Chuck

Depending on the SP level of the OEM disk, you may have a problem with a
300Gig drive.
As I remember the minimum SP level is SP-1a for large hard drives.
 
T

Terry

On 4/11/2007 4:04 PM On a whim, woody pounded out on the keyboard
I have a Win XP system with 1GB of Memory and an existing WD SATA 80 GB
HDD with a 40 GB ATA HDD. I recently purchased and installed a 300GB
Seagate SATA HDD which shows up in the BIOS and under XP System info as a
297 GB HDD but is not partitioned or formatted.
My Computer shows the existing SATA which is partitioned as C, D,and E,
the ATA HDD as H, and CD and DVD drives as F:, and G:.
Everything seems normal but I need a little advice about Partitioning and
formatting the new serial drive.
When I installed my first serial drive, I formatted the
drive using my OEM XP disk. I also added a serial driver supplied with
the drive. I didn't get a serial driver with the second drive but after
reading the info on the Seagate site it appears I don't need to add any
drivers in XP.
I think I can use the XP OEM to format, but I can't recall if I
partitioned the HDD with the XP disk.
How will it initially appear up as it is not partitioned or formatted and
can I use the XP disk to Partition it.
One more thing the other serial drive is formated as a NTFS and the ATA
is a FAT32.

TIA

Hi Woody,

Once the drive is connected, you should be able to format it in Disk
Management (diskmgmt.msc). You don't need the XP CD.

You've already installed the SATA driver in XP so you're set.

It is okay to have drives using both NTFS & FAT32. I have both also (my
data & program drives are FAT32 because I have older OS's that can't
read NTFS).

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Terry

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tango

On 4/11/2007 4:04 PM On a whim, woody pounded out on the keyboard


Hi Woody,

Once the drive is connected, you should be able to format it in Disk
Management (diskmgmt.msc). You don't need the XP CD.

You've already installed the SATA driver in XP so you're set.

It is okay to have drives using both NTFS & FAT32. I have both also
(my data & program drives are FAT32 because I have older OS's that
can't read NTFS).
Thanks Terry, followed your suggestion and I now have a functional 300 GB
hard drive.
 
T

Terry

On 4/11/2007 8:00 PM On a whim, tango pounded out on the keyboard
Thanks Terry, followed your suggestion and I now have a functional 300 GB
hard drive.

Glad to hear. Take care,

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