> > From: "Tim Øsleby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2008/03/25 Tue PM 07:36:31 GMT > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: OT: Puter problems. How to connect a SATA drive > > I found the power cord. It was there all the time :-) > > Now my next problem is to get the puter to understand that this new > drive is 500MB instead of 131MB. > > MaritimTim
Run Fdisk from a floppy and enable NFTS, then create an extended partition that fills the disk. Then format it, install your OS and then run checkdisk in thorough mode, just before you go to bed. Wake up in the morning to a lovely day with a new computer begging to be filled with all sorts of useless junk. > > 2008/3/25, Sandy Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Toine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > SATA drives have a different power connector. The connector is also > > > flat like the sata connector and wider. Some power supplies have this > > > sata connector other don't and sometimes they suppy a conversion cable > > > with the drive. > > > > You need two cables going into the SATA drive, data and power. Older > > power supplies don't have the SATA power connector and most SATA > > drives don't have the older type power connector, so you need a little > > converter device. > > > > It could be worse. I recently had to buy one. How do you say "power > > cable converter" in Chinese when none of the sales people speak > > decent English! > > > > -- > > Sandy Harris, > > Nanjing, China > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > follow the directions. > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
