IDE to SATA... what do i need to do here?

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IDE to SATA... (Updated: Need help)

I've just bought myself my first SATA drive, thing is its second hand and didnt come with drivers and junk, its just the drive itself.

Its gonna be the only hard drive i'll be running (2 partitions), but im not entirely sure on the install proceedure. Somebody told me these drives need their own set of drivers to work, unlike IDE drives which are pretty much plug-and-play. But what drivers do i need?

The HDD i have is a WD3000JD (Western Digital 300GB SATA), and to be honest the WD driver page confused the hell outta me. 1st Gen, 2nd Gen?! Those arent written on the sticker!

So basically what i wanna know is, which drivers do i need, and whats the proceedure for installing them on a clean drive? I mean, i think windows prompts for SATA drives during the install, so do i just bang in a floppy with the drivers on it?

Damn second hand stuff, he could have included the manual. :mad:

Thanks!
 
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Well, the process is gonna go like this: (fingers crossed)

- Rip my side panel off and install the SATA drive (with the IDE drive still in there)
- Make sure the SATA is being detected by the bios
- Install the SATA drivers if i need to
- Partition the SATA drive into two drives and format em both to NTFS
- Transfer about 50gb to the second partition (D:\)
- Rip the IDE drive out
- Format the first partition again if it needs it (which it shouldnt)
- Install windows on the first partition (should be C:\ once the IDE drive is taken out)
- Hope for the best :rolleyes:

That sounds about right to me anyway...
 
OMFG! Argh! I hate computers... seriously.

I need to atleast get it into windows so i can partition it and transfer about 50gb to a partition before i go and remove my old drive and reinstall windows on the new one.

And here's the problem.... it wont boot. Everytime i try to boot up with the molex connected, it blue screens and resets the computer, this happens when i try to boot in safe mode too, but it is being detected in the bios. So i thought, maybe i need the SATA drivers installed first, no biggy. I ripped the molex out, it booted fine, so i chucked in the floppy, went to open it to find the SATA drivers, only to be greated with:

A:\ is not accessable

No ID address mark was found on the floppy disk.

This is the disk that came with my board.... WTF! :mad:

Im stuck, not to mention annoyed... what do i do now? =/
 
Well the last one i bought had a little jumper diagrams and crap, but anyway... im still no closer to fixing the problem.

I tried using Combined Mode, that did nothing. And Albatron dont seem to have the SATA drivers on their site to download.... they have everything else though. :rolleyes:
 
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Its an Albatron board.

Im gonna try an install on the SATA drive now, minus the floppy part if the damn disk decides not to work in DOS aswell and minus the IDE drive, if it all works i should be able to hook the IDE drive back up to transfer my stuff over... well, thats the theory anyway.

I'll be installing Windows XP Pro with SP2 intergrated, so hopefully it'll already have all the drivers i need.
 
Alrighty, installing without the IDE drive connected worked a treat, have yet to hook it up again to transfer my stuff back over, if worst comes to worst i'll have to run the IDE drive alone again and burn everything to DVD.

Oh, and i didnt need to use the floppy. :D
 
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