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| 1261910 | 2012-02-28 01:54:00 | Hi all, Bought a new PC this week with a single SATA drive. After running it up I discovered that my old PCI drive controller would not work with Win 7 64 bit OS. OK with Win XP. I want to add a second SATA drive. I've had a look thru Youtube and it looks straight forward. Easier than IDE drives. I've done loads of multiple IDE drive systems. Are there any traps about getting this going or it just a case of putting it in , booting to Windows and setup the drive in the Disk management program. My SATA controller is setup as IDE as I have Win XP as my first OS.. Will taht make any difference?? Thanx in advance.. |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 1261911 | 2012-02-28 02:13:00 | Piece of cake, just like you said. Only possible issue normally is some BIOS's shuffling the boot order when you add drives. If it fails to boot you might need to alter this otherwise no problem. You shouldn't need an extra controller, but what was the problem? no PCI slot? hardware conflict? no drivers? - because my ancient controllers work ok it just took a bit of searching to track down drivers for them. (I don't have the packaging so had to figure out what they are by googling things off the card itself). I did find I can't plug both my old controller cards in at the same time, but individually they work fine. IDE mode is fine, AHCI is better if you plan on hot swapping drives or maybe using an SSD but otherwise isn't needed. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1261912 | 2012-02-28 02:14:00 | IDE mode just means its not in AHCI mode. And when you installed XP, it didnt need SATA drivers. So, the mobo doesnt have SATA onboard then? So you want to install windows on the 2nd hdd too, as well as the 1st / original hdd? If you do, connect the 2nd hdd, boot from the windows cd/dvd. And install windows / something on the 2nd hdd. If you want to dual boot. Otherwise, you'll have to go into the BIOS and change the bootdisk (to boot from either) all the time Or if you want to use the 2nd hdd (to put data on it). Just connect it and format it in disk management / then give it a letter (if it has never been used before) |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1261913 | 2012-02-28 02:43:00 | I have an old P4 running as a server used to be XP now it's Amahi server, I have added to the original IDE drive that has the OS one 3.5 SATA drive and because I needed more disk space one 2.5 laptop SATA drive. Open the case plug them in screw in place boot up job done | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1261914 | 2012-02-28 03:22:00 | Piece of cake, just like you said. Only possible issue normally is some BIOS's shuffling the boot order when you add drives. If it fails to boot you might need to alter this otherwise no problem. You shouldn't need an extra controller, but what was the problem? no PCI slot? hardware conflict? no drivers? - because my ancient controllers work ok it just took a bit of searching to track down drivers for them. (I don't have the packaging so had to figure out what they are by googling things off the card itself). I did find I can't plug both my old controller cards in at the same time, but individually they work fine. Thanx all. I was going to move my old IDE drives across to the new PC but when the controller didn't work they are now spares hence the need to buy another drive for video editing etc.. |
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