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| Thread ID: 129680 | 2013-03-06 03:31:00 | Adding extra hard drive | arjay (1202) | Press F1 |
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| 1331520 | 2013-03-06 03:31:00 | Dell xp with existing 80gb SATA Hard drive: OK, I know its an oldie but so is my brother in the UK who wishes to add a second drive. He has purchased a Westerd Digital WD5000AAKX 500GB SATA/16mb Cache drive. Does anyone know how to set this drive up as a slave drive? I can't see any links for this on the net as on an IDE drive so do sata's automatically know which is the master by the order they are on the cable? Also it says on the sleeve it came in, 'Attention! "advanced format drives require additional installation steps." Does this only apply to Vista and Win 7? Any help greatly appreciated, Thanks! |
arjay (1202) | ||
| 1331521 | 2013-03-06 03:55:00 | SATA's dont have slave only IDE hdds do. The only thing you may have to change is the jumper. If the mobo supports SATA 1, and the hdd is SATA 2. All you have to do is, connect it to a spare SATA port. And a spare SATA power connector. And once you're in Windows go to control panel / admin tools / computer management / disk management. Make sure you select the right hdd, then format it. So windows can see it and so you can use it |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1331522 | 2013-03-06 07:09:00 | Dells often ship with the bare minimum of options on their motherboards, so if there isn't a spare SATA data connector on the MOBO you will either have to sacrifice the CD/DVD drives position for the drive, or obtain a PCI slot based SATA controller card. You might also have to find your way into the BIOS, but once again, Dell machines typically have very little option to customise with 'after market' upgrades. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1331523 | 2013-03-07 05:38:00 | SATA's dont have slave only IDE hdds do. The only thing you may have to change is the jumper. If the mobo supports SATA 1, and the hdd is SATA 2. All you have to do is, connect it to a spare SATA port. And a spare SATA power connector. And once you're in Windows go to control panel / admin tools / computer management / disk management. Make sure you select the right hdd, then format it. So windows can see it and so you can use it What about this bit? Any suggestions? Also it says on the sleeve it came in, 'Attention! "advanced format drives require additional installation steps." Does this only apply to Vista and Win 7?Any help greatly appreciated, Thanks! |
arjay (1202) | ||
| 1331524 | 2013-03-07 05:46:00 | You should be able to plug it in if you have a spare SATA header, switch on the computer go to disk management and format the disk. That should be it | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1331525 | 2013-03-07 06:01:00 | What about this bit? Any suggestions? Also it says on the sleeve it came in, 'Attention! "advanced format drives require additional installation steps." Does this only apply to Vista and Win 7?Any help greatly appreciated, Thanks! Pass. Have no idea what that means. But it looks like hdd's that use that have an AF logo on the hdd. Does it have an AF logo on this hdd? But according to a PDF from the HP site it says What does the Advanced Format drive mean to you? This section outlines a range of scenarios involving the use of Advanced Format drives and describes actions that should be taken to optimize performance in each case. These actions typically depend on the OS being used. When running an OS that is not Advanced Format-aware in conjunction with an Advanced Format drive, your system may experience performance issues due to misalignment between logical sectors (OS) and physical sectors (disk media) – also referred to as a misaligned partition. You can typically use the Paragon Partition Alignment Tool ensure partitions are aligned, thus enhancing performance. The Partition Alignment Tool first checks to see if the alignment of a particular partition is compatible with Advanced Format requirements and, if necessary, makes the appropriate adjustments. Note The Partition Alignment Tool may report a misalignment for a 4 KB-aligned partition but not for a 1 MB-aligned partition. The following Windows platforms are Advanced Format-aware (thus, no realignment is required): Windows Vista® SP1 or later Windows 7 Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE) 3.0 or later |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1331526 | 2013-03-07 07:35:00 | Thanks for that Speedy, much appreciated. | arjay (1202) | ||
| 1331527 | 2013-03-08 01:06:00 | It's only 500GB so it shouldn't be AF... | Agent_24 (57) | ||
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