SATA and IDE together?

aliferste · 27-01-2006, 21:42

Hiya, Just built a new comp and was wondering about something. I bought an SATA hard drive which is now up and running but was wondering if I could add a IDE hard drive at the same time ?

The other thing is that my new hard drive is 200gb however it only shows up as 150gb or something.....around that figure anyway.....any ideas ?

**Maggy J** · 27-01-2006, 22:04

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Originally Posted by aliferste

Hiya, Just built a new comp and was wondering about something. I bought an SATA hard drive which is now up and running but was wondering if I could add a IDE hard drive at the same time ?

The other thing is that my new hard drive is 200gb however it only shows up as 150gb or something.....around that figure anyway.....any ideas ?

I've now got an IDE master HD and a SATA in the same PC.Oh and I was told that the reason I couldn't have the SATA as a master was because at 160 GB it ws too big for XP home to see.

27-01-2006, 22:13

I have 40gb IDE as master and a 200gb SATA as my second drive... I did have the SATA as a stand-alone master before this setup tho.

nffc · 27-01-2006, 22:24

Yes, but you need to make sure XP installs on the SATA and that's higher in the boot priority. I have two drives, one IDE, one SATA, both partitioned with an XP install on each, the one on SATA is much faster but the bootable one is the IDE. I obviously don't really use the other XP.

rtj70 · 27-01-2006, 22:28

I've now got an IDE master HD and a SATA in the same PC.Oh and I was told that the reason I couldn't have the SATA as a master was because at 160 GB it ws too big for XP home to see.

I've got XP Home quite happily booting of a 250GB drive...

so XP Home not the problem there. And all hard drives on my Intel 915 motherboard are SATA.

nffc · 27-01-2006, 22:32

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Originally Posted by Incognitas

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Originally Posted by aliferste

Hiya, Just built a new comp and was wondering about something. I bought an SATA hard drive which is now up and running but was wondering if I could add a IDE hard drive at the same time ?

The other thing is that my new hard drive is 200gb however it only shows up as 150gb or something.....around that figure anyway.....any ideas ?

I've now got an IDE master HD and a SATA in the same PC.Oh and I was told that the reason I couldn't have the SATA as a master was because at 160 GB it ws too big for XP home to see.

You need to slipstream SP2 into your XP CD before that will work

aliferste · 27-01-2006, 22:35

Right have now sorted out the size problem, for some reason when I ibstalled service pack 2 it sorted itself out!

Will have a bash tommorow at installing the 2nd hard drive

27-01-2006, 22:35

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Originally Posted by rtj70

I've now got an IDE master HD and a SATA in the same PC.Oh and I was told that the reason I couldn't have the SATA as a master was because at 160 GB it ws too big for XP home to see.

I've got XP Home quite happily booting of a 250GB drive...

so XP Home not the problem there. And all hard drives on my Intel 915 motherboard are SATA.

Ye I forgot to mention that, I've just had a mates PC here that I was sorting out for him which had 2 x 200gb SATA's using RAID, and his OS was XP Home...

**Maggy J** · 27-01-2006, 22:36

Well the saga of my SATA drive is not really the topic here.I was just trying to help...However I'm slowly going off the idea of DIY PC's.

rtj70 · 28-01-2006, 14:45

If the original drive was a 200Gb one, then that's disk manufacturer Gb. Computers work in binary so Windows will show you the real Gb size which is probably around 186Gb depending on who made it.

Does that clear up the question?

28-01-2006, 14:46

Ive got 4 sata and 3 ide in my machine

28-01-2006, 14:57

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Originally Posted by rtj70

If the original drive was a 200Gb one, then that's disk manufacturer Gb. Computers work in binary so Windows will show you the real Gb size which is probably around 186Gb depending on who made it.

Does that clear up the question?

ye, 1mb of hard drive space is 1048K but windows see's it as 1000K thats why u get 200gb showing as 189.5GB [approx]

**Stuart** · 28-01-2006, 15:11

Actually, that's not quite right. One meg is 1024K. Windows uses this value. Hard drive manufacturers tend to use 1000K as one meg, hence they sell a hard drive that is actually 190 Meg as a 200 Meg drive.

28-01-2006, 15:15

ive learnt something new now .I thought the space was lost in the writing of file tables and the like thats not seen

**Stuart** · 28-01-2006, 16:20

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Originally Posted by zinglebarb

ive learnt something new now .I thought the space was lost in the writing of file tables and the like thats not seen

Actually, I was over simplifying.. HDDs do use a lot of space for file tables etc, but HDD manufacturers have also been known to use the 1 Meg = 1000 K measurement.