Post by thread:[OT] TeraByte drive question

I have acquired a 1TByte drive that I would like to use on a new (to me) system that now has a 40GByte drive. As is my custom, I plan to partition the new drive into thirds. I will be running XP Pro. Am I likely to run into any problems with installing this huge drive? The drive is a standard 3.5" internal form factor with a SATA interface. Any enlightenment will be appreciated. Vic -- *____________________________________________________________________________________________* *Victor Fraenckel KC2GUI windswaytoo ATSIGN gmail DOT com** *

Vic Fraenckel wrote: > I have acquired a 1TByte drive that I would like to use on a new (to me) > system that now has a 40GByte drive. As is my custom, I plan to > partition the new drive into thirds. I will be running XP Pro. Am I > likely to run into any problems with installing this huge drive? The > drive is a standard 3.5" internal form factor with a SATA interface. > > Any enlightenment will be appreciated. > > Vic Your going to need the SATA driver for your hard disk, and you're going to need a floppy disk drive. You put the SATA driver onto a floppy, you boot the Win XP CD, and when it asks about "3rd party SCSI or RAID drivers", you hit whatever button it says and then it reads your driver from the floppy. No, there's no other way than using a floppy drive. I got a brilliant USB floppy drive off eBay for about 10euro.

As far as I know there is a 2TB limit, so with that disk you should be fine. I think what Tomas meant with the floppy disk is that if during the installtion process of the XP you cannot load the driver from any other media than floppy disk. However, if you have an up n' running system and just wanted to add an additional disk then you should be fine. Good luck, Tamas On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Vic Fraenckel <spam_OUTwindswaytooTakeThisOuTgmail.com> wrote: {Quote hidden}> I have acquired a 1TByte drive that I would like to use on a new (to me) > system that now has a 40GByte drive. As is my custom, I plan to > partition the new drive into thirds. I will be running XP Pro. Am I > likely to run into any problems with installing this huge drive? The > drive is a standard 3.5" internal form factor with a SATA interface. > > Any enlightenment will be appreciated. > > Vic > -- > > > *____________________________________________________________________________________________* > > *Victor Fraenckel > KC2GUI > windswaytoo ATSIGN gmail DOT com** > * > > -

On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 13:22 +0100, TomÃ¡s Ã“ hÃ‰ilidhe wrote: > > Vic Fraenckel wrote: > > I have acquired a 1TByte drive that I would like to use on a new (to me) > > system that now has a 40GByte drive. As is my custom, I plan to > > partition the new drive into thirds. I will be running XP Pro. Am I > > likely to run into any problems with installing this huge drive? The > > drive is a standard 3.5" internal form factor with a SATA interface. > > > > Any enlightenment will be appreciated. > > > > Vic > > Your going to need the SATA driver for your hard disk, and you're going > to need a floppy disk drive. Not necessarily. It depends on your system. Most systems I've installed XP on with SATA drives didn't require anything special during the install. The SATA drive is support by the BIOS, and the generic drivers included with XP will usually be enough to get the install to complete. AFTER the install is complete it's wise to install the specific SATA drivers for performance reasons, but I've never needed to do that at install time with modern systems. TTYL

Herbert Graf wrote: > Not necessarily. > > It depends on your system. Most systems I've installed XP on with SATA > drives didn't require anything special during the install. The SATA > drive is support by the BIOS, and the generic drivers included with XP > will usually be enough to get the install to complete. > > AFTER the install is complete it's wise to install the specific SATA > drivers for performance reasons, but I've never needed to do that at > install time with modern systems. A mate of mine had a laptop with Vista on it. I kept hounding him to stick XP on it so eventually he brought his laptop around to me one day. I wiped it, stuck in the XP CD, booted it up... but it couldn't find a harddisk. He needed the laptop by later in the day so he ended up just installing Vista back on it >:(

> It depends on your system. Most systems I've installed XP on with SATA > drives didn't require anything special during the install. The SATA > drive is support by the BIOS, and the generic drivers included with XP > will usually be enough to get the install to complete. > It does indeed depend on the system. Older systems and plug in cards typcially need a manufacturers driver period. Newer systems have a choice of mode, in AHCI mode all the ports work but you need a manufacturers driver, in legacy mode you don't need the manufacturers driver but some ports don't work.

Tomás Ó hÉilidhe wrote: {Quote hidden}> Vic Fraenckel wrote: > >> I have acquired a 1TByte drive that I would like to use on a new (to me) >> system that now has a 40GByte drive. As is my custom, I plan to >> partition the new drive into thirds. I will be running XP Pro. Am I >> likely to run into any problems with installing this huge drive? The >> drive is a standard 3.5" internal form factor with a SATA interface. >> >> Any enlightenment will be appreciated. >> >> Vic >> > > Your going to need the SATA driver for your hard disk, and you're going > to need a floppy disk drive. > > You put the SATA driver onto a floppy, you boot the Win XP CD, and when > it asks about "3rd party SCSI or RAID drivers", you hit whatever button > it says and then it reads your driver from the floppy. > > No, there's no other way than using a floppy drive. I got a brilliant > USB floppy drive off eBay for about 10euro. > > There is another way. Use nLite to slipstream the driver into an installation CD then install. -- Regards, Stephen D. Barnes

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 1:55 AM, peter green <.....plugwashKILLspam@spam@p10link.net> wrote: > Older systems and plug in cards typcially need a manufacturers driver > period. > > Newer systems have a choice of mode, in AHCI mode all the ports work but > you need a manufacturers driver, in legacy mode you don't need the > manufacturers driver but some ports don't work. My desktop was not so new (bought in early 2005) and it is using NForce 3 chipset. It does not need a driver with the SATA drive when installing XP. It is said that Bios may play a part as well at that time. Xiaofan

In message <48667634.40502KILLspamlavabit.com>, Tomás Ó hÉilidhe <.....toeKILLspam.....lavabit.com> writes >A mate of mine had a laptop with Vista on it. I kept hounding him to >stick XP on it so eventually he brought his laptop around to me one day. >I wiped it, stuck in the XP CD, booted it up... but it couldn't find a >harddisk. > >He needed the laptop by later in the day so he ended up just installing >Vista back on it >:( > Check the BIOS on the laptop, you may find it has a setting in there to allow you to change the HDD interface from 'Native' to Compatible, there's going to be a performance hit but it will allow you to install the OS and you can load the drivers later. -- Clint Sharp

Clint Sharp wrote: > Check the BIOS on the laptop, you may find it has a setting in there to > allow you to change the HDD interface from 'Native' to Compatible, > there's going to be a performance hit but it will allow you to install > the OS and you can load the drivers later. > I toggled everything I could find, but no luck. Had to get the SATA driver on a floppy in the end.