Installation of SATA (Serial ATA) Hard Drive

[Whaciab]

Do I need a floppy disc drive in order to use a Serial ATA Hard Drive? Is it possible to copy an old OS from an ide drive to a new SATA drive or must I do a fresh install in order to upgrade? Thanks!

 

[aLeoN]

Yeah I had to update the VIA raid drivers with a floppy for my sister's A8V Deluxe to recognize the 80gb SATA drive. I didn't want to bother with pata at that time.

 

[suszterpatt]

Sort of related question: when I migrated from two IDE drives to a SATA, I didn't install any new drivers (apart from those on the mobo's CD), and the thing works fine. Still, is it normal that there's an icon in the taskbar for "safely removing" the only HD in the machine? Is this a SATA feature or do I need some extra drivers?

 

[Whaciab]

so.... ill install the drivers BEFORE i clone the drive? afterward, pending bios settings, it should boot off it?

 

[Finns14]

No drivers need when installing a SATA drive I would say you only need to try drivers if your drive isn't being recognized

 

[stevty2889]

It depends on your motherboard, if it's an older board you might need SATA drivers, but modern motherboards have native SATA, and no drivers are needed.

 

[stevty2889]

Originally posted by: suszterpatt
Sort of related question: when I migrated from two IDE drives to a SATA, I didn't install any new drivers (apart from those on the mobo's CD), and the thing works fine. Still, is it normal that there's an icon in the taskbar for "safely removing" the only HD in the machine? Is this a SATA feature or do I need some extra drivers?

Thats normal, depends on the motherboard. On some of mine the SATA drives show up like that, on others they don't, but it's perfectly normal when they do, doesn't mean you need extra drivers.