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beanryu · 01-08-2009, 11:42 PM

Trust me, I did read the sticky threads and other soures online regarding this matter.
I feel really stupid and frustrated right now.
I bought this hitachi 1 TG sata2 hard drive from new egg. Well, I didn't know sata means so much troubles. I thought it is another harddrive that just allows me to use it by just putting it into the THING. I dont even know what an IDE harddrive is before this crisis. I need a new hard drive because I am using a 7 gb samsung hd I got 10 years ago because my 80 gb hard drive just died. So to stop the annoying "your hard drive space is low" message from popping up, I decided to buy a 1 TB hard drive thinking that haha I won't need no worries for the rest of my life.

Now I am really fxxxdup... I bought this thing and I am completely lost...
okay, to keep it short, I learned about it and got myself a data cable from my cousin. I read all about those controllers, but I think I don't need one because I got the sata slots on my motherboard(am I right?). So I plug in the power cable, the data cable(which is plug into the hd on one side and the motherboard on the other-no controller card).

This is what my computer has right now.
ASUS A7N8X-E motherboard,
a 7gb samsung hd that I am using now with 100 mb left (as I make this thread)
a disconnected hitachi 1tb harddrive.
I will omit the other stuff.

I disconnected the new hd because I can't get into windows with the hd connected, i will discuss what happens when the new hd is connected, but let me present another fact here:
when I check device manager, there is a yellow question mark next to an item called "raid controller". I read about it and sort of got the idea that I have to install a driver for it, but I don't know how, I put in my windows XP Pro cd and it seems I can only install the driver for "raid controller" if I install window xp again, which I dont want.

SO this is what happens when I shut down and plug all the cables into the new hd.
It will go through everything fine(pass the part where I guess every expert call POST). At the very beginning, I went into bios and see that bios didn't detect the new HD, i try to make it detect it but it just doesn't. So I let it go past POST and that's where I got stuck.
The following appears:

press control s or f4 for raid(something like this)

0 hitachi78xxc7xc87v98x(there is some long butt number after hitachi which i can't quite remember, but something like that)

That is where I am stuck, there is no response to any input, so I made myself into thinking that it's formatting the new hd even though it shows 0 not 0%. But after 2 hours its still 0, nothing changes. I know its 1 TG, but it should at least be more than 1%. If an 80gb takes 4 hours, than 2 hours of a 1024 gb hd should be at least 1%. Or maybe my computer is too old?

Please guys, give me some thoughts. Is the new hd being formatted when I see:
0 hitachi37msludsi889?
I just want to use the new hd as another hard that stores stuff just like my 7gb one. Not anything pro like backing up the primary hd.

01-08-2009, 11:42 PM	#1 (permalink)
beanryu Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 5 OS: XP	HOW to install a sata2 hd? Trust me, I did read the sticky threads and other soures online regarding this matter. I feel really stupid and frustrated right now. I bought this hitachi 1 TG sata2 hard drive from new egg. Well, I didn't know sata means so much troubles. I thought it is another harddrive that just allows me to use it by just putting it into the THING. I dont even know what an IDE harddrive is before this crisis. I need a new hard drive because I am using a 7 gb samsung hd I got 10 years ago because my 80 gb hard drive just died. So to stop the annoying "your hard drive space is low" message from popping up, I decided to buy a 1 TB hard drive thinking that haha I won't need no worries for the rest of my life. Now I am really fxxxdup... I bought this thing and I am completely lost... okay, to keep it short, I learned about it and got myself a data cable from my cousin. I read all about those controllers, but I think I don't need one because I got the sata slots on my motherboard(am I right?). So I plug in the power cable, the data cable(which is plug into the hd on one side and the motherboard on the other-no controller card). This is what my computer has right now. ASUS A7N8X-E motherboard, a 7gb samsung hd that I am using now with 100 mb left (as I make this thread) a disconnected hitachi 1tb harddrive. I will omit the other stuff. I disconnected the new hd because I can't get into windows with the hd connected, i will discuss what happens when the new hd is connected, but let me present another fact here: when I check device manager, there is a yellow question mark next to an item called "raid controller". I read about it and sort of got the idea that I have to install a driver for it, but I don't know how, I put in my windows XP Pro cd and it seems I can only install the driver for "raid controller" if I install window xp again, which I dont want. SO this is what happens when I shut down and plug all the cables into the new hd. It will go through everything fine(pass the part where I guess every expert call POST). At the very beginning, I went into bios and see that bios didn't detect the new HD, i try to make it detect it but it just doesn't. So I let it go past POST and that's where I got stuck. The following appears: press control s or f4 for raid(something like this) 0 hitachi78xxc7xc87v98x(there is some long butt number after hitachi which i can't quite remember, but something like that) That is where I am stuck, there is no response to any input, so I made myself into thinking that it's formatting the new hd even though it shows 0 not 0%. But after 2 hours its still 0, nothing changes. I know its 1 TG, but it should at least be more than 1%. If an 80gb takes 4 hours, than 2 hours of a 1024 gb hd should be at least 1%. Or maybe my computer is too old? Please guys, give me some thoughts. Is the new hd being formatted when I see: 0 hitachi37msludsi889? I just want to use the new hd as another hard that stores stuff just like my 7gb one. Not anything pro like backing up the primary hd.