Question on formatting a SATA drive

westy · Post by **westy** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:02 am

I just picked up a new Seagate 500 GB SATA hard drive to replace my older ATA's. I am going to use Seagate's software to clone my OS onto the new one but want to create a partition for my OS.

Should I partition it before I clone the OS or do I do it after ?

Thanks folks !

maroon · Post by **maroon** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 11:15 am

Definitely. Set up whatever partitions you want on the new drive and then clone to the partition you want.

westy · Post by **westy** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 12:01 pm

Thanks for the reply. That's what Seagate told me too !

bobolito · Post by **bobolito** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 1:30 pm

Make sure to defragment your old drives before you clone.

westy · Post by **westy** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 4:53 pm

Silly question here, but where can I locate the SATA drivers ?

Rainbow · Post by **Rainbow** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 7:33 pm

SATA drivers are only specific to a motherboard chipset. if the mobo uses a VIA chipset, then you need via sata drivers, intel for intel boards, etc.
Therefore you may not find them on seagate's site. Check the Motherboards website.

maroon · Post by **maroon** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 11:39 am

Browse the disk that came with your mobo. The SATA drivers should be on there.

westy · Post by **westy** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 9:23 pm

I got it installed fine and everything is working but in Sandra it's showing up as an ATA drive. Is that normal, and do I still need to grad the drivers off my mobo disk ?