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Setting Up SATA

Postby Santaclauseee » Tue Oct 10, 2006 4:27 am

okay i did post this in another topic but it didn't get noticed.

Right having found a place that still stocked SATA hard drives i've bought one and it should arrive in the morning post, but how do i set it up? just plug and play? As i've looked into my bios and it said something about RAID or IDE... and i'm awfully confused now....
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Re: Setting Up SATA

Postby Gunny04 » Tue Oct 10, 2006 4:29 am

Sata hard drives are pretty common place I thought? or is their a difference between ATA and SATA? should just plug the SATA connector in, then the power cord, and start up the computer! Cheers, Gunny
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Re: Setting Up SATA

Postby Santaclauseee » Tue Oct 10, 2006 5:30 am

ahhh its all okay now, Asus default setting for SATA was RAID, which i gathered is for 2 SATA drives, which i dont have. Just NTFS formatting it as we speak, thanks Gunny for your contribution, and thanks to Cameron and everyone in the other post SATA2
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