Summary: Well, from the link by itguru it appears that Laptop SATA drives have the same connectors as desktop SATA drives. The question still remains, why are ...
Summary: Hi, I am looking for an adapter that will allow me to use my SATA (laptop) harddrive with my IDE (desktop) motherboard. Any suggestions ? But here's m...
Summary: I picked up 160GB and 320GB SATA drives at a computer show, along with a SATA to USB 2.0 enclosure to hook them up with my laptop. Both of the drives ...
Summary: Well i got an 80 GB SATA drive for my new Compaq. I figured i would give Vista a go and maybe get used to it. Well i used the recovery CD's that i ord...
Summary: hi, I generally use a brand new HP laptop with vista, however I wanted to do some work getting a new WD 160GB SATA drive up and running. I have an old...
Summary: Sorry this message will most likely be long, but I hope someone can help me. I have just put this system together and would like to install Windows M...
Summary: I recently purchased a Soltek SL-K890Pro-939 Via K8T890 Chipset. I installed a SATA drive directly to the mainboard and Windows wont detect the drive ...
Summary: Jumpers on the SATA drives dont exist. All is contolled throught the bios and the SATA conectors are marked 0 and 1. I presume that the bios settings ...
Summary: I don’t use DVDs in my laptops DVD drive to often. But just recently I went to play a DVD and every time I would try and play it it would freeze my co...
Summary: Hi All, Need to slave a sata drive to retrieve OLD data...'the drive is faulty', read up that you can just connect an ide cable to the cdrom dr...
Summary: i installed a sata drive last week.. i was having sluggish performance so i decided it was about time to format and start new. everything booted up fi...
Summary: The SATA drives will show as SCSI drives if you have an Intel ICH5-R and you load the Intel RAID drivers by pressing F6 during Windows install. These ...
Summary: Hard drive - Western Digital 200GB SATA Mobo - Asus KV8 SE Deluxe I am trying to install windows XP on a WD 200GB SATA drive. I do not want to use RA...
Summary: I installed a SIIG SATA controller card, and attatched a new SATA drive to it. Well, I don't see the drive anywhere in the Computer Management/Local s...
Summary: also...i should say that i have had to do this even with just one SATA drive Abit NF7-s 2500+ @ 3200+ 512 Corsair XMS PC3200 128 meg Radeon 9800 Pro D...
Summary: Hi all, I'm hoping for a quick answer to 2 quick questions. 1. I am going to buy a SATA hard drive for my MB. To install these drives is it as si...
Summary: Not sure if laptop CD drives are like desktop drives or not but I have had trays stick on me. The solution is to insert a sraightened paperclip into ...
Summary: My computer currently has two IDE type ATA hard drives and one SATA/150 hard drive. The read speed of the SATA drive is extremely slow. When I burn ...
Summary: Though I'm not familiar with that specific board......on my Asus you have to connect one sata drive to the master (sata1) and the other to the slave (...
Summary: Hello, I'm having no luck at all getting my raid 0 set up much less my sata drives, i have an asus p5gdc board with 1gb of ddr2 ram. I have 2 maxtor 1...
Summary: SATA is pretty flakey with Asus boards. Check the Asus support site as they have numerous posts about this including some SATA drives that simply will...
Summary: Right i have two sata drives in my pc i want to run on sata0 (raid). But when i try to install os on to them it cannot detect any drives. I have creat...
Summary: Hi all, I'm thinking about installing a couple of SATA drives in a new computer to get the RAID advantage. I've heard rumors that SATA drives don't g...
Summary: I'm going to buy a new sata drive soon and was wondering if I needed to install the sata driver during the XP installation or should I install XP then...
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