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Internal Hard Drive

  • 25-05-2012 2:34pm
    #1
    jrby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 579 ✭✭✭


    Brother recently built me a new PC....I'm putting in a new SATA internal hard drive tonight.....anything i need to worry / think about as haven't done this before....


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  • #2
    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,017 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    jrby wrote: »
    Brother recently built me a new PC....I'm putting in a new SATA internal hard drive tonight.....anything i need to worry / think about as haven't done this before....

    Absolutely nothing, no jumpers or anything on SATA drives, just plug and play. You should put the drive in the SATA1 port on the mobo (though tbh it shouldn't matter regardless).
    You'll only run in to trouble if you wan't to put a pre SP3 XP version of Windows or older, if you are you will need to slipstream SATA Chipset drivers for the drive to be recognised, post here if that is the case for help doing this

    Nick

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  • #3
    jrby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 579 ✭✭✭jrby


    thanks Nick. JRBY


  • #4
    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,017 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    Just another thing if your putting it in as an additional drive you will need to format it for windows to recognise it (you can do this via disk management)!

    Nick

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  • #5
    jrby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 579 ✭✭✭jrby


    Nick,

    The advice helped (particularly the disk management part)....

    Thanks again.

    JRBY


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