First off all can I just say that this is my first time trying to install a Sata drive as I have all ways used IDE Drives so I apoligise for my pure thickness !.
Any way just got my new overlclocked pc a few days a go and this morning I received my new 500GB Sata Hard drive which I would like to install.
Now when I first tried to attach the Sata drive to my PC is wouldnt seem to fit right with one of the cables but I noticed in my motherboard box a orange cable which fitted fine on the data port on the drive.. I then atached the other end to my motherboard.
Ok this is were I am totaly lost !! windows has loaded and I have gone in disk managment and I my new drive isnt showing up.
to give you a little more information I currently Have a 300GB IDE hard drive at the minute which is my main drive do I need to pull that out for my sata drive to work ??
can any one pleaseeeeeeee !!........ give me some sound advice to get this drive working so I can use it as my main drive and install Xp on it.
thanks for any help !
Any way just got my new overlclocked pc a few days a go and this morning I received my new 500GB Sata Hard drive which I would like to install.
Now when I first tried to attach the Sata drive to my PC is wouldnt seem to fit right with one of the cables but I noticed in my motherboard box a orange cable which fitted fine on the data port on the drive.. I then atached the other end to my motherboard.
Ok this is were I am totaly lost !! windows has loaded and I have gone in disk managment and I my new drive isnt showing up.
to give you a little more information I currently Have a 300GB IDE hard drive at the minute which is my main drive do I need to pull that out for my sata drive to work ??
can any one pleaseeeeeeee !!........ give me some sound advice to get this drive working so I can use it as my main drive and install Xp on it.
thanks for any help !