Need help installing a SATA hard drive. I have a new computer arriving soon with a 640GB SATA hard drive running Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit, I want to move my other 250GB SATA hard drive running Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit from my dead computer...

WD SATA Hard Drive Install. I am building a machine with ASUS A8V-E Deluxe MB, AMD 64-3700+, 2G DDR. Wanted to use WD SATA HD 350G. as primary Drive. Plugged into SATA on board as instructed. Bios shows no HD, Boot for XP shows no hard drive. What am I doing...

Bios is not detecting sata hard drive. I bought a new mobo and installed my old ide dvd drive and my sata hard drive. when I go into standard setup of cmos it shows it only detects the dvd drive as master and nothing else as slave, etc. I then go to advanced...

Vista not recognizing sata hard drives. I am a novice, but thought I would try building a PC anyway. I have it up and able to open bios. When I try to install Vista 64 stops because it can not recognize either of the sata hard drives that are installed....

with the F6 during install. It enabled it to see the entire sata hard drive. It would go through the entire install but on reboot it would blue screen. No doubt the raid driver. I know from experience that xp will install but not see the entire drive....

SATA to SATA Drive Clone Help. Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell () Dell is replacing my WD120GB SATA hard drive on a newish (March 2004) Dimension 8300 since the drive vibrates massively - to the point it shakes the chassis/case. As much as possible,...

primary hard drive is a Seagate 200GB SATA (ST3200822AS) and I have Windows XP MCE 2005 SP2 running off of it. I just added a second SATA hard drive, a 500GB Seagate (ST3500631NS). This second hard drive gets detected in the bios and even gets detected by...

Enabled/Disabled) This seems right to me. I have a SATA hard drive and a DVDRW. For now, only the hard drive is connected. With this configuration, when the computer boots, I see a message: ** This version supports only Hard Disk and CDROM drives ** Please...

to upgrade to all SATA drives and have ordered a new SATA II hard drive and optical DVD drive. I'll be running a single 500GB SATA II hard drive i.e. no RAID. I'll be doing a clean install of Windows XP SP2 on the new PC. From what I've read, XP doesn't...

not let me format/partition/install on the hard drive - I got an error saying I can't access the drive. So I redownloaded the drivers and tried again. This time it allowed me to install the driver, but I still couldn't format/partition/install on the hard drive....