SATA Hard Drive Question

Hi

I have recently purchased TI9 and a new 300gb SATA external hard drive for backing up my internal (200gb) HD....the question I ask is : What is the difference between a SATA hard drive and a Non-SATA hard drive ?.....and have I purchased the right piece of kit in terms of compatability with my current set up ?. I can provide spec details of my system ii required.

Regards

ftwynne59

 

if you open your case you'll see either the IDE ribbons for P-ATA (parallel) drives or S-ATA (serial) cables. sata are abit faster and the cable is alot smaller.

http://www.maadiran.com/persian/IMAGES/sata-pata.jpg

 

Thanks Iceni60

Another question/problem.....having installed/formatted the new hard drive, and on re-boot, I now get multiple prompts to press F10 for recovery.All was well pre-install...i.e. I did not have to press F10 to continue to the 'Welcome' screen.
Any ideas how I can recover the situation ?. Can I get back to the status of not having to press F10 ?

Any advice welcome.

Cheers

ftwynne59

 

How I can know that my laptop has IDE or SATA drive.

 

1. if u know the laptop model, u can look up the specs.

2. a utility like pc wizard or sandra can identify your hardware specs and u can then check what interface your hard disk uses.

 

thanks.
No way to know from within ur OS( XP Home)?

 

Enter your BIOS on startup.

John.

 

ok, i will.
thanks.

 

Just to make things a little easier to understand.

 

Thanks a lot Kapiti.
BTW how u people take these snapshots( out of OS), with digicam?

 

That isn't from my actual BIOS setup, just a page from the motherboard manual.
If I had wanted to use my actual settings for an example, I would have needed to use a camera.
To capture from within Windows I use a free programme called "Faststone Capture for Windows" - http://www.faststone.org/

John

 

everyone should have pc wizard, it's about the best system spec program you can get. it's free and has an install - .exe, and standalone - zip versions.

http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php

http://www.cpuid.com/pics/pcw3.jpg

 

Hi Iceni,

One of my freind has a very old computer. would it be possible to know which motherboard he is using. Processor which he is using pentium 566 Mhz.

Actually he needs the graphics driver and sound drive for his computer or if you can suggest any generic graphics and sound driver which can work for all computers.

Looking forward to your reply.

 

try pc wizard. you can see in the screenshot that it has a driver tab; just click on that and it should let you know which drivers to get.

 

Thanks. I am already using same software. Really the best free screen capturing utility. I combine it with FastStone viewer for editing.

 

Thanks for a nice software link. I will d/l it.