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From: "grt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: HELP!!!!!!!! SATA HD - how long should windows
inspect --------------?
I spent a frustrating 4 hours last week with a machine I assembled
last week with this very problem.
Abit mobo had an NForce 4 chipset. Hard drive was Maxtor SATA.
Mobo mapped the SATA as an IDE device and could install without a
driver diskette (which surprised me).
I may by showing my ignorance here as I have not even done research to learn
what PATA is. I can say this about Seagate SATA (now they claim the drives I
am buying are SATA II -- Wow! Zoom! Zoom!) is plug and go! I just hook the
drive to my Asus P4P800 SE or Asus P5GD2-X motherboard and set the channel I
hook to for Auto in the BIOS and it is as simple as IDE. I do lots of data
copying outside of the Windows environment using Ghost. It does not matter
what the source or target drive is, IDE, SATA or External USB, I get the job
done and I do not need no Winders' as Wayne calls that OS.
While y'all diligent students who invest more time in R&D (maybe I invest
too much time in R&R) are flying high in Windows, I, the mole, am making
great strides without Windows. My clones of XP Windows loads in the NTFS
format work well when I overwrite a messed up C Drive with it or copy it to
a new replacement hard drive.
I bragged all these years about copying at warp speed with Ghost and without
Windows, but now Acronis True Image is impressing me. I am getting even
faster rates copying in Windows from a SATA hard drive to a USB 2.0 External
hard drive, not a straight copy, but copying to an image.
When it comes to mixing SATA, IDE and USB 2.0 hard drives, are we having
fun, yet? I know I am! I may get lost up there in Windows, but let me be the
mole and I am in home territory. What works below Windows, usually works for
me in Windows. For may problems I test outside of Windows. I know it has to
work there for it to work in Windows. One exception. I have seen situations
where Windows XP would detect a hard drive that could not be detected
outside of Windows. Those seem to be rare.
Chuck
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