Vista HDD intallation

[Vampir0]

Got a new 320Gig Seagate 16Mb Cache harddrive today

I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit and I remember when I installed my first SATA drive on XP it was a mission and a half!

Wondows Vista was virtually plug and play. Just needed to format the drive from the Manage option under Computer Properties

Easy as pie

 

[Brawler]

Should be the same with XP, as long as its got SP2.

 

[dabouncer]

Vista still required drivers for my old sata drive. Quite painful. Seems like the older drives and older mobo chipsets were not designed very well, possibly by a South African...

 

[werner]

a cd has a finite amount of space on it.

so does a dvd. so you gotta be picky with regard to what you ship on the installation media.

any drivers that ship with the OS are called "in-box" drivers. In-box drivers must be
1) whql approved
2) stable 100%
3) for popular hardware

if point 1 AND 2 AND 3 is not met, then %operating_system% will not ship with those drivers in-box.

p.s. your idea of "popular hardware" may not reflect on the global population.

 

[PeterCH]

Got a new 320Gig Seagate 16Mb Cache harddrive today

I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit and I remember when I installed my first SATA drive on XP it was a mission and a half!

Wondows Vista was virtually plug and play. Just needed to format the drive from the Manage option under Computer Properties

Easy as pie

It was a mission to plug everything in with all those stupid wires and cables in the way. Once plugged in, XP recognises the drive, you use Computer Management to enable the drive. It's even faster in Mac OSX.

 

[PeterCH]

a cd has a finite amount of space on it.

so does a dvd. so you gotta be picky with regard to what you ship on the installation media.

p.s. your idea of "popular hardware" may not reflect on the global population.

8 GB of space on a DVD, if you use compression on driver files (which compress very well, most are TEXT anyway) you can achieve close to
10-16GB of storage on a double layered DVD. That's a LOT of drivers.

 

[werner]

8 GB of space on a DVD, if you use compression on driver files (which compress very well, most are TEXT anyway) you can achieve close to
10-16GB of storage on a double layered DVD. That's a LOT of drivers.

tell that to microsoft, I sure as heck cant do anything with that information.

my point: just because your hardware/sata controller/yum-cha modem doesnt work out of the box is no reflection on the OS, but is more of a reflection on the hardware manufacturer's quality of drivers. if the stuff was up to scratch, it would either make it to windowsupdate or be supplied as in-box drivers. I'm not too bothered right now discussing the semantics of exactly how many text files fit onto a dual layer dvd if you zip them all up and polish it with spit.

 

[kingrob]

I've never had to install any 'drivers' for hard drives - this sounds weird.

Also, let me guess, your motherboard only has SATA connectors, then it should be as easy as pie.

Was a different 'ball game' with PATA, then you had to manually change the jumpers for master/slave, if you had more than one hard drive on the same ATA connector.

NOTHING TO DO WITH XP OR VISTA.