Simviation Forum - Hard drives

Mar 31^st, 2005 at 12:05am

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What's the difference between the UDMA and the SATA hard drives.? Which type is better?

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Reply #1 - Mar 31^st, 2005 at 12:07am

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SATA is better.

Faster and higher bandwidth.

And no master slave junk.

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Reply #2 - Apr 4^th, 2005 at 7:28pm

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??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ???

My PC has two 80Gig each EIDE HDs. My OS (WinXP) is installed in the Master. I would like to install a larger (120+Gig) Serial ATA HD. My questions are:
1. Can I use the SATA drive as my main drive?
2. Do I have to do anything to the two existing drives?
3. Can I just transfer my OS to the new drive or do I have to load it using the CD?

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Reply #3 - Apr 4^th, 2005 at 10:38pm

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1-Yes, easily, its what I do
2-No, some applications may need to be reinstalled.
3-Yes, but thats not the best way. You will have to reinstall it via the CD for the best stability.

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Reply #4 - Apr 4^th, 2005 at 11:11pm

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Thanks Autopilot.

OK, after I install the SATA drive and get it connected what do I do next? Will there be an installation CD? or do I have to make changes in the BIOS?

Further, do I have to do in partitioning, formatting, etc. with the SATA drive?

By the way, my mobo supports SATA, my OS is WixXP.

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Reply #5 - Apr 4^th, 2005 at 11:34pm

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You can partition the drive if you want. Formatting is required.

SATA HD's are no different from eIDE HD's except the connection and no master slave setting in terms of install.

You may want to go into the BIOS to set the primary boot hard drive as the SATA one also.

Windows should automatically reconigze the device and you can format it from windows if you want.

The XP installation Cd can also format it and installl a new clean XP os onto it too.

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Reply #6 - Apr 5^th, 2005 at 9:22am

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Even though it's better to install a fresh copy of the operating system, if you don't want to install everything you can also use Norton Ghost to copy the old disk over the new.
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Reply #7 - Apr 5^th, 2005 at 7:52pm