Preacher February 14, 2006 Share Preacher Member February 14, 2006 OK I just ordered my first sata hard drive and I was wondering how you install it as your main drive. Can one of you guys with experience give me the low down on it? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lunk February 14, 2006 Share Lunk Member February 14, 2006 Use the SATA cable plug one end into a SATA port on your MB plug the other end into the SATA HD. If you are only using one HD. If you are using multiple SATA HD's to setup a RAID configuration. Then someone else will have to explain that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stutters February 14, 2006 Share stutters GC Alumni February 14, 2006 non technical version: i stumbled through my bios until i found something re: advanced chipset configuration or serial ata. technical version: http://www.google.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acid-Flux February 15, 2006 Share Acid-Flux Member February 15, 2006 (edited) Installing a SATA Drive (HD or CD) is the same as IDE. The Plugs (Power and MB Connector) can only go in one way, and they are differnt sizes. You then just have to go into your bios (Usually pressing the "DEL" button, and finding the "Boot sequence" menu. From there you can select the new drive. Edited February 15, 2006 by Acid-Flux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preacher February 16, 2006 Author Share Preacher Member February 16, 2006 Ok I'm technically proficient I was told by someone you had to install 3rd party drivers to use the sata drive, but wasn't sure if that was just for older boards or whatnot. Thanks gents for the non-condescending posts. I know it's hard as a techie to here the noob questions and not say "Uh well plug it in dork!" lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acid-Flux February 16, 2006 Share Acid-Flux Member February 16, 2006 (edited) that is in-correct. you DO NOT need 3rd party drivers. 95% of the time you can find them on your MotherBoard's cd. or if you want the most up to date just go to their website and download it Edited February 16, 2006 by Acid-Flux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cujo February 16, 2006 Share Cujo Member February 16, 2006 actually you don't need any drivers for an sata drive. windows xp will recognize it just fine. the only reason you'd need drivers is for a raid setup and those would be found on the raid chipset manufacturers websites (intel, nvidia, via, silicon image, etc.). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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