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Old 26-07-2004, 21:45   #5
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Re: Help needed - SATA drives in WinXP setup

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Originally Posted by Richard M
Sorted now.
I had a proper read through of the manual that came with the motherboard and although it said to make a floppy for the VIA RAID, it worked fine with just the one disk.

The computer is FAST though, I can't get over the difference between this and my old Athlon XP 3200 with Maxtor 200GB IDE drive.

Actually getting the driver onto a floppy was a nightmare though, I had to boot up my 3200, then remote desktop into the 1800 to create the floppy disk because that's the only one with a floppy drive anymore.
Then I had to swap monitors over to the FX32, connect the floppy drive (oh the shame! ) and install it as theblueraja said.
It didn't accept the WinXP version though so I used the Win2000 drivers and it seems fine, the disk could have been corrupted though (re: not accepting XP drivers) because the only one I could find was a 10 year old OS/2 install disk.

Seems to be working though, but I can't quite get over the fact that the disk seems to format in 5 seconds or less?
I know these drives are fast as hell but is this right?
sata is no faster than ide, check the benchmarks the new drive may be faster but it's not cause of sata if u are a fast format it'll always be that quick
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