I installed the software on the second drive. Installed the driver for PCI card, XP recognised the drive immediately. There were no problems. All the data was there. I guess my friend must have done something wrong.
Thanks for your help guys.
Thanks for that cdogg. If I take your advice, partition it using PM, how do I get OS on it? It is ntfs at the moment, do I need to convert to FAT32 to be able to install OS on it and hope that it will run from this drive.
I am planning to restore a ghost image I saved earlier with a clean OS on...
The reason I say that the only way to access the drive is by formatting it is becuase my friend has the same configuration he end up loosing it. When you make the drive active in Administrative Tools it neeed to be reformatted for the system to see the drive.
This is what is scaring me, I don't...
Thanks for that cdogg.
I have a ST Lab's PCI SATA Raid Card with 2 Ports.
This is the link from the manufacturer:
http://www.st-lab.com/IDESI3112R.html
At the start up I can go into the card's menu by pressing Ctrl+S or F4. There are 4 options:
1. Create RAID set
2. Delete RAID Set
3...
Thanks for that Frank4d.
What I am concerned about is that you need to install the driver to access the SATA drive, and the only way accessing the drive is by formatting the SATA drive. Once I do that I will loose my existing data.
Is this correct?
I am using Windows XP Pro.
I have a pentium 3, 733mhz system. My motherboard is limited to 80gb hard disk capacity. To get around the problem I have installed a new PCI SATA card and a new 200gb hard disk for additional storage.
I have three drives in my computer now, two IDE and one SATA.
I need to reformat my...
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