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adding a SATA drive to my comp (w/ 2 IDE drives)

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Shivindragon

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hey guys,

I just bought a new SATA drive, and I'm wondering if I have to do a fresh install of winXP to get my computer to recognize the drive. I remember reading somewhere that in the beginning of installing WinXp I have to press F6 to install RAID drivers or something. Do I need to do this if its gonna be 2 IDE and 1 SATA drive on the system?
 
It all depends on if you are planning to use the SATA Drive to boot from
And also if your mobo supports it ... If you are adding a SATA PCI Controller Card
then, drivers will be installed when you put in the card
As to reinstalling Windows, you would do a Repair Install ... If you plan to
Boot from the SATA Drive .... should not be necessary if you are just going to
use the new drive for apps or storage ... You will have to Format it & if you
want, Partition it ..... You will also need at least SP1 with Windows XP to see
the full capacity of the drive if it is over 137GB in size
 
Originally posted by: bruceb
It all depends on if you are planning to use the SATA Drive to boot from
And also if your mobo supports it ... If you are adding a SATA PCI Controller Card
then, drivers will be installed when you put in the card
As to reinstalling Windows, you would do a Repair Install ... If you plan to
Boot from the SATA Drive .... should not be necessary if you are just going to
use the new drive for apps or storage ... You will have to Format it & if you
want, Partition it ..... You will also need at least SP1 with Windows XP to see
the full capacity of the drive if it is over 137GB in size
Click to expand...

my mobo is a MSI K8N Neo2 Plat. There are 4 SATA ports on there, so according to your post I should be albe to just plug in my new SATA drive and it'll be good? (I think I'm still planning on installing a fresh copy of winXP on one of my IDE drives).
 
Youll only need to do the F6 process if your using Sata RAID I believe, not to use the single Sata as a boot drive.
You should be able to just plug the Sata drive into the port with the current IDE install of XP, then partition it and format it using Computer Management/Disk Management
 
If you aren't going to use it as the Windows system drive, all you have to do is RUN diskmgmt.msc, bring the drive online, then partition and format as needed.
 
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