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Need help with ATA hard drive

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hanpan007

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A little misreading, and here I am with a single seagate barracuda ATA hard drive. Is there any way I can use just the one hard drive and not need a second one because of RAID? Will the ATA-to-IDE adapter work? I just want the hard drive to work like a regular lone drive. Is there any way I can do that with my drive, or do I have to get a 2nd one or a different one as my options?
 
a little more information would be nice - what m/b, is it a raid card? but usually the m/b that have raid have an option to turn it on/off or us different ide ports. i cannot see any reason why you cannot use just 1 hdd...

welcome to the boards 🙂
 
Um ATA is the same as IDE. Exactly the same... So what do you mean by an ATA-to-IDE adapter? A little more info would also be nice 🙂

Welcome to AT.
 
Are you asking if you can use a single HDD in a RAID equipped computer? The answer is yes. If you dont want a RAID, just dont set it up.

RoD
 
The board is: ASUS A8V-E Deluxe Socket 939 VIA K8T890 ATX AMD Motherboard

The hard drive is: Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3250823AS 250GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM

If it has the option to turn it off, where exactly would that be? I try starting up and I get an error message that one one drive was detected and I cant see a bios option that helps me any.

A link with information about the adapter I referred to is:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16812107112
 
Oh, you mean SATA-to-IDE adapter, not ATA-to-IDE adapter... You don't need 2 hard drives. It's perfectly fine if you just have 1 hard drive. What do you mean by "one drive was detected"? You only have 1 drive right? I'm assuming the drive mentioned in the original post is the same as the one mentioned in your last post...
 
I only have the one drive, and I installed it and when I booted up it says "Insufficient drives for RAID setup" and just hangs there. Going to the raid setup also says that, and if I try and change RAID to IDE, it sets itself back to raid. Really, just if someone gave me a step by step to use a single hard drive like the one listed and get it to boot and install the operating system, that should fix it. What setting should I be looking for?
 
Actually, the "Insufficient drives for RAID setup" only happens when you go to the raid setup. When the computer is initializing, it recognizes the hard drive and lists its brief specs, but then when it gets to the Windows XP installation, it says no hard drive detected and that's it. So it's being recognized somewhere, but not when it comes to installing the OS. Hope that helps someone figure this out.
 
according to this - http://usa.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=A8V-E%20Deluxe&langs=09# it appears that the sata connectors support the raid and the ide are regular non-raid ide. you should, in theory, connect the hdd to pri_ide connector (the blue one), set the hdd to master and then go on your way. or you could go into the bios and not use the sata-ide adapter and setup the sata connectors so they are just regular ide ports and not raided together (page 4-23 of your manual)....hope this helps
 
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