Hi !
I just bought a ..
- Maxtor Serial ATA 120 GB 8M Hard Disk
and connected the 2 cables on it ( i was able to create a partition on it via the DOS ( Win ME Emergency Boot Disk ) ) I dont use WinME at all but i just like the boot disk on it for formating, fdisk, etc
I have 2 options in the BIOS ..
1 - Serial ATA Boot ROM thing .. ( what is that ? )
2 - Promise RAID blabla ( if i enabled this .. the HD is detected )
I have 2 sub choices ... RAID or IDE ..
I dont want to use RAID since i dont have 2 ..
But !!! i cant see it at all in my Windows XP !! this is freakin annoying .. and i tried to install a bunch of things that i'm not sure i need them ...
- IDE Raid
- Promise FastTrak
- Even a SCSII controller appeared ?!
This is my motherboard
http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/socket754/k8v-d/overview.htm
And do i need something " special " at all in Windows XP to be able to see the sATA HD ?? ( or any sATA HD ... ? )
*** And there's any program for Windows able to see unpartitioned HD and being able to do any kind of tasks on them ( like creating new partition as well ! ) .. like the old Fdisk.
And i was able to format it ( booted in Dos ) ... formated in FAT32 ... it was 52GB ... but the partition made it a 117GB .. Oh well !
my ( C: ) is a 60GB IDE ATA133
my ( D: ) will be the new sATA ... i hope !
I'll buy another SATA soon .. btw for now i dont care i just want this one to be fully functionnal :?
HELP HELP !
Thx
RainZ
I just bought a ..
- Maxtor Serial ATA 120 GB 8M Hard Disk
and connected the 2 cables on it ( i was able to create a partition on it via the DOS ( Win ME Emergency Boot Disk ) ) I dont use WinME at all but i just like the boot disk on it for formating, fdisk, etc
I have 2 options in the BIOS ..
1 - Serial ATA Boot ROM thing .. ( what is that ? )
2 - Promise RAID blabla ( if i enabled this .. the HD is detected )
I have 2 sub choices ... RAID or IDE ..
I dont want to use RAID since i dont have 2 ..
But !!! i cant see it at all in my Windows XP !! this is freakin annoying .. and i tried to install a bunch of things that i'm not sure i need them ...
- IDE Raid
- Promise FastTrak
- Even a SCSII controller appeared ?!
This is my motherboard
http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/socket754/k8v-d/overview.htm
And do i need something " special " at all in Windows XP to be able to see the sATA HD ?? ( or any sATA HD ... ? )
*** And there's any program for Windows able to see unpartitioned HD and being able to do any kind of tasks on them ( like creating new partition as well ! ) .. like the old Fdisk.
And i was able to format it ( booted in Dos ) ... formated in FAT32 ... it was 52GB ... but the partition made it a 117GB .. Oh well !
my ( C: ) is a 60GB IDE ATA133
my ( D: ) will be the new sATA ... i hope !
I'll buy another SATA soon .. btw for now i dont care i just want this one to be fully functionnal :?
HELP HELP !
Thx
RainZ