im tryin to install my Sata drive and mind u ive never worked w/sata be4. im using a 160gb ide rite now as my os drive but i want to make my 200gb sata drive my os drive and use the 160gb just for storage, i dont want it in raid, i have a msi k8n neo4 plat/sli board w/3.1 bios. what do i need to set in my bios to get it to work, ive tried a few things but i keep gettin hard disk failure
Sata and IDE
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bloodthirst
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you need to set your IDE drive to slave and your SATA drive to primary on the jumpers settings have you done that, and then you need to go into the BIOS and change your boot sequence to CD-rom>HDD>floppy. then restart your computer making sure you have the windows disc inserted then install windows in that hard drive
bloodthirst
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are you able to boot from the CD?
make sure you have the SATA cable pluged in properly and make sure its all pluged in correctly with power.... and take the IDE off totally and just start with the sata drive
make sure you have the SATA cable pluged in properly and make sure its all pluged in correctly with power.... and take the IDE off totally and just start with the sata drive
bloodthirst
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name='SnoMan' said:
can you see that your motherboard recognises that theres a Hard drive there ( sorry im not exactly familiar with SATA )?
bloodthirst
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when you try and boot from the windows CD to format, does anything hapen like the disc spinning? or not at all because it could be because you dont have the plugged in?
have you tried booting off the ide drive and putting the SATA as your secondry drive does it work there? also what brand of drive is it
have you tried booting off the ide drive and putting the SATA as your secondry drive does it work there? also what brand of drive is it
bloodthirst
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as he said up there sata port 1
yeah i think you should try SATA 1 or SATA 2 and btw if you have overclocking that will screw up your hdd. Unless you use the locked sata ports (i.e. SATA 3 and 4 ) but then i think that you would need to use the driver that came on a floppy and press f6 during the windows setup at a certain point
bloodthirst
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yeah try different sata ports 
Let me get this straight...
You've plugged in the SATA Drive
You can see it as detected in the BIOS
You get an error when you try to boot from it
If thats right, then have you installed anything on the drive, like Windows? If the drive doesn't have a boot sector (which windows will install) then you will get an error when you try to boot from it.
Either set the BIOS to boot from CD-Rom first, pop the Windows CD in and install Windows or let me know if you want the data to be copied from the old hard disk to the new one, and i've got some software that will do that for you.
You've plugged in the SATA Drive
You can see it as detected in the BIOS
You get an error when you try to boot from it
If thats right, then have you installed anything on the drive, like Windows? If the drive doesn't have a boot sector (which windows will install) then you will get an error when you try to boot from it.
Either set the BIOS to boot from CD-Rom first, pop the Windows CD in and install Windows or let me know if you want the data to be copied from the old hard disk to the new one, and i've got some software that will do that for you.
bloodthirst
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what brand HDD is it, could be DOA
bloodthirst
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yeah because some Hard drive manufacturers like maxtor have the drivers on a disc for it and you boot off that disc before you do the windows install
