You download and run the file as specified, then use that software to make you drive setup process easy. Thanks for the sata hard drive setup information ref the 640 gb. I am working my way thu but have a snag, now when I power up the new drive, I hear the...

How to set up Bios to read SATA with existing IDE HDon Gateway Gt 5028. I am having problems with installing a Sata hard drive... I have an existing IDE hard drive that has windows Xp installed my intent was to install a Sata as a back up I come to find out...

8.0 with SATA hard drives with no problems. If you are trying to restore an image created from a PATA drive you may run into some problems with Windows not booting because of driver issues and/or boot.ini pointing to the wrong drive. These problems can...

my head around SATA whilst building a new computer... i might be overlooking something obvious though K7N2G-delta ilsr m/b SATA hard drive 160gb maxtor the sata is the only drive and i'm trying to clean install windows 2000 pro... when the pc first...

be able to boot and run. You are correct and that is what is throwing me off. It does see the sata cd/dvd but not any sata hard drive. Yes the hard drives I am connecting are fine. I have tried the hard drive that was in here before the non boot happened. It...

I just need to get it running so I can contact Western Digital and see where I go from here. Please help if you can. It would help if you gave a little more detail. Exact model of PC? ATA or SATA hard drive/CD drive. You could have a look at all the...

the SATA drive in IDE, RAID,AHCI in the BIOS. Still nothing. I consider this is my last resort -- I am going to just try to install WinXP on my other IDE drive and see if it works then install sata driver to try and see if I can access the sata drives I have....

Slave: DVD >>>> I also have a SATA hard drive connected through a PCI card (no SATA>> connections on motherboard). My external hard drive is a Maxtor 60Gb Ultra >> ATA. When I connect it through USB 2.0, Windows will just bring up the >> "Safely...

rate for conventional PCI bus is 133 MB/s, and this is shared among all active devices on the bus. In addition, as of October 2005 no ATA (this includes SATA) hard drives exist capable of measured sustained transfer rates of above 80 MB/s. Furthermore, sustained...