Lord Odin

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(GoGiants98 @ Jul 12th ) [snapback]1621305[/snapback]</div>If you're booting to a hard drive that already has Windows installed from another system, you're going to get blue screens. You'll want to either boot into safe mode and uninstall the motherboard drivers (less effective method) or clean install (for best stability). With improper motherboard drivers, lots of functions will cause problems, even common ones such as accessing the RAM, transfering to the hard drives, etc.


If you bought it online for that price, it is most likely an OEM buy, meaning it's just the drive, not a retail package, which would include the box, manual, cable and any software utilities they provide.

GoGiants98

meh, all I really need is the cable and ive alreayd got it, I guess I'll just clean install, re-install everything and copy preferences and such over, thanks for the help if I didnt check back here I probably wouldve done things the hard way

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Brooklyn @ May 20th ) [snapback]2006104[/snapback]</div>

imported_Crystallas

Just throw it in and install. Its a standard device, unlike pre ATAPI-C standards.

The only trouble you might have is if your OS doesnt recognize all of the space, so you'll need to use a newer copy of the install, or for windows, slipstream SP2 to your existing copy and burn a new copy.

As long as the jumpers are okay, your straight.


And doing a direct copy will be flawless, unless you are doing windows, then you will need to "ghost" the OS portion of the original.


And if the board doesnt detect the drives full capacity, then you should go to the manufacturers website and download the latest bios.

If you run into any trouble, just throw it into the original configuration, and post the problems, I'll walk you through whatever.

(been working on computers of all sorts for longer than the average age of the forum.) I think I can manage.

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