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Problem is, the hard drive didnt come with an install disk?
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 05:19:56 -0500, nospam@needed.com (Paul) wrote:
>In article <lv1c8016jvkoa5nm8cpk8c4v8lk0nsgmkc@4ax.com>,
>husker3in4@donotspam.yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> Thanks paul. I will just leave it alone. I am about to install it
>> in a couple hours as soon as my backup is done. Im wondering if I
>> will have to do anything as far as the mobo seeing the whole drive.
>> I have read some issues about that in here. I have a P4P800, I was
>> hoping I can just plug the cables in and reboot, then install
>> windows on it straightaway. I would be partitioning it into 5
>> drives. Do you think I will have the full 160gb available to me
>> to partition up from the winxp installation screen?
>
>Have a look back in this newsgroup for some discussions about
>large drives. There was mention of several Konwledgebase articles
>concerning the EnableBigLBA registry setting. If you have a
>recent enough install disk, or have constructed a slipstreamed
>install disk, there might in fact be nothing to do (and no registry
>entry either). With an older install disk, there is a registry
>setting that can be enabled, but that would be tough to do if
>the big disk is the install disk. Since I haven't been too
>successful helping people in the past with this, I'll leave it
>at that.
>
>You also have to watch it with drivers, because large disk support
>was only successfully implemented on some drivers within the last
>year.
>
>In any case, some advice I will give you, is to fill all partitions
>with "fake data". I like to take a 1GB file (or even take an image
>of a CD, at around 600+ MB) and duplicate that many times on the
>disk, until each partition is full. The reason this is necessary,
>is if your install isn't healthy, the first file that goes above
>the 128GB mark, will cause instant file system corruption.
>You want to make sure the disk is healthy before storing real live
>data on the drive. You can also use a checksum program, to read
>back the files and prove that the disk surface is good (the checksum
>value on all the duplicated files should be identical).
>
>That is what I would try, after installing the disk and partitioning
>it. I've filled and tested my last two disk drives that way, before
>putting live data on them.
>
>HTH,
> Paul
>
>>
>> On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 05:37:06 -0500, nospam@needed.com (Paul) wrote:
>>
>> >In article <f6r980hmsm6kl1unt1eghotk6agg6lk3vp@4ax.com>,
>> >husker3in4@donotspam.yahoo.com wrote:
>> >
>> >> Im sorry that this post is off topic, but I find this NG to
>> >> be the most knowledgeble on just about everything computer
>> >> related. I just got my 160gb SATA HD, and while usually the
>> >> drives will have a diagram on them to show where the jumper
>> >> should be for Master, Slave etc, this one doesnt. It has 2
>> >> rows, 4 across. The Jumper is vertically positioned on the 2
>> >> on the far right. The only diagram on it shows the jumper on
>> >> the 2nd set from the right side, and says "PM2 Enabled".
>> >>
>> >> I want to run this drive as Primary MASTER on my MOBO. Is the
>> >> setting correct already? Its a WD1600JD.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks..
>> >
>>
>>http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=958&p_created=1050530240
>> >
>> > "Western Digital Serial ATA drives have a jumper block located
>> > next to the ATA power connector. There is generally no need to
>> > change the default jumper setting in order to use the drive.
>> > The only use of this jumper block is to enable or disable power
>> > management for the drive. The drives ship in the default
>> > position with the shunt on pins 1-2 (disabled). Alternatively,
>> > the jumper can be removed completely with the same result.
>> > Placing the shunt on pins 3-4 (enabled), designates that the
>> > drive will power-up in standby mode. For most users the default
>> > position should be used."
>> >
>> >I guess since the SATA cable won't plug into an older motherboard,
>> >there is no longer support for the limit or clip jumper. As there
>> >is only one drive per cable, there is no notion of master/slave.
>> >(At the speed the data signal works, signals have to go point to
>> >point, and cannot be shared with more than one drive.) So, there
>> >isn't much to jumper anymore.
>> >
>> >HTH,
>> > Paul
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