set. And do NOT try to use the instructions for an IDE drive on a SATA drive. Pay attention to the question of forcing 1.5 Gb/s speed for a SATA controller connection. I don't know your Compaq machine, but if its SATA mobo controllers are the original type...

the system HD and a SATA 500 gb storage drive. My first thought was bad windows system files or the older 40GB hd, but I can't get the machine to boot off the windows CD. I tried taking out the 40GB and using the 500 SATA for the system drive, but it won't...

and Slave, but that has NOTHING to do with which hard drive is the boot device called C:. SATA systems only use one device per port, so there is no such thing as Master or Slave on any SATA port. (b) I am GUESSING that you want the older IDE hard drive to...

but my new 1 TB hard drive is not detected by my computer what may be the problem, what is the maximum capacity of SATA 150 connector Could be you need to put a jumper on your drive for 150. Capacity is not the issue - ALL SATA systems (drives and controllers)...

support", and it was needed in mobo controllers for disks, in the hard disk units themselves, AND in the Operating Systems. The timing was such that ALL SATA systems (controllers and HDD's) HAVE this included, but Windows XP in its original release did NOT....

cannot change the size of the original Partition you are booting from. Oh, for those confused about hardware and BIOS upgrades, almost all systems since about 2000 have 48-bit LBA support in BIOS and controller hardware. And for sure, EVERY SATA system - mobo...

See a future problem with SATA drives?. I am in the process of converting 3 PCs and 2 NAS units over to SATA. The problem I can see if I have to reinstall XP in the future is it doesn't see the full size of the 1T sata drives until I have installed sp1....

SATA ports. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P. My questions is how to best utilize these controllers. I have 4 hard drives installed (all SATA) on this system utilized by task: Primary 36G Raptor just for the operating system (XP sp3), a...

the SAME space - none is missing! 3. File System Overhead - on any drive, once its space is allocated to a Partition (or more than one), each must be Formatted. This installs on that Partition a set of hidden files that track the use of its space for your...

to tell. here's the hardware: ga-k8n-sli, athlon x64 socket 939 processor, 3GB memory, WD1600 hard drive, hooked up with SATA. System's a decent plugger, up until a bit over a week ago. System freezes up, I reboot, and it repeats a few times before finally...