HELP! need to install and format SATAII disk before missus gets home!

MooSey-UK · 28 Feb 2007 at 16:19

Noooooooooob questions here from a SATA virgin.

i've just got a SATAII Hdd which i want to format and parition.
am going to put pagefile onto 4GB partion and use the rest for games.
already have a EIDE Hdd with XP on and a slave EIDE data storage.

I've loaded the SATA drivers for mobo (Asrock 939 dual VSTA).
when i boot from XP disk it does'nt see new SATAII drive not giving me option to format and partion.

How do i do this? do i need to drag my floppy drive out to make a boot diskette?

Help please. i wanted to get it done and sort pagefile out then load oblivion + mods before the missus gets home

MooSey-UK · 28 Feb 2007 at 16:33

ooh thanks im off to try

MooSey-UK · 28 Feb 2007 at 16:36

nope.

disk management does'nt see it, only EIDE drives.
its present and enabled in device manager though.

MooSey-UK · 28 Feb 2007 at 16:41

going to try setting it to ide in bios and see if xp disk locates it.

MooSey-UK · 28 Feb 2007 at 22:04

set it to IDE in bios and it was recognized by xp install disk.
all i wanted to do was use the xp disk to format and partition.
1stly it only saw 130gb of 250gb so partioned without me wanting that
2ndly it only formatted the 1st partion
3rdly it created another bootpath to this disk.

i've fixed the boot path but am left with a partitioned disk half formatted.
i want to unpartition it, format the whole 250gb then put in a 4gb partition for my pagefile.
the rest is only for games.

any ideas?

it is now recognized as a disk in xp but only showing the partioned 130gb section.

MooSey-UK · 28 Feb 2007 at 23:30

yep all done now.
never used the disk management tool before, now i know

pagefile on fastest part.
hopefully less loadcell stutter in oblivion now :cool:

thanks for your help.