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northview

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April 21st, 2006 10:00

hooking up a SATA drive

I have a Dimension E310 and it is the first PC I have dealt with that uses Serial hard drives (SATA). I want to add an additional SATA drive, but have a question about connecting it. I am used to installing IDE drives so there was always the issue of making it either slave, master or cable select. I notice that isn't required on a SATA drive. So, do you just hook it up and let it go?. The PC will then detect it appropriately? Or is something else needed to be done for installing?
 

rickmktg

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April 21st, 2006 13:00


@northview wrote:
I have a Dimension E310 and it is the first PC I have dealt with that uses Serial hard drives (SATA). I want to add an additional SATA drive, but have a question about connecting it. I am used to installing IDE drives so there was always the issue of making it either slave, master or cable select. I notice that isn't required on a SATA drive. So, do you just hook it up and let it go?. The PC will then detect it appropriately? Or is something else needed to be done for installing?
 


In the future, by using the Advanced Forum Search on the bottom of this page, you can quite easily find the answer to this often asked question.


Hook it up, turn it on in bios, and partition and format in Disk Management. 

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