Quasi-cainiao hard drive installation notes

Motherboard 8 Krai via kt600 + vt8237, two SATA interfaces, two ide interfaces, one IDE is connected to the hard disk, and the system Windows XP SP2 is installed; the other ide is connected to two optical drives, the master is a pioneer recorder, and the slave is a read-only optical drive.
I think a hard disk is not enough because of a lot of movies and music, and I want to buy another hard disk with a larger capacity, it is used to store movies or music.
I checked it online and said that the trend of Hard Disk interfaces will be serial port or Sata. I think my current motherboard will support SATA hard disks, and I should simply buy one disk and the trend will also develop, so we went to Seg to build a Seagate hard drive with 570 Oceans: st3250450as, 7200.9, 250 GB, with a three-year warranty. I didn't think too much about it. I thought I could use it if I plugged it in. I couldn't find the hard disk after I got it and inserted it into the system. I found a document online saying that I would like to set the BIOS. However, the BIOS of this board is different from what I said on the Internet and cannot be set up. I checked the motherboard instruction and said that I want to install the SATA driver, but only the SATA raid driver is in the drive disc. I don't think I will do raid. Is it useful to install this driver, the dead horse is used as a live horse doctor. Install it first. The installation is useless, and it is really a matter of death. Check the hard disk information online, and upload the BBS, saying that you should update the BIOS of the Board to the latest version, and check whether the hard disk is Satai or sataii. If it is sataii, you must patch the hard disk. No way, you just need to brush the BIOS first, and then click magic flash to bring the BIOS to the latest version. After reading the hard disk for a long time, I didn't find out where Satai or sataii was marked above. I can find it online. Mom, it's really sataii. So let's make a jumper, but there's no jumper cap, no way, you can only remove the Jixing optical drive and use the above patch cord cap first. However, the hard drive did not mark the master and slave as the optical drive. I was so angry that I thought how the hard drive was like this. Check the Jumper settings on the Internet. Finally, we found that, starting from the end of the power supply interface and data interface, the first and second plug-ins can be skipped to Satai. Okay, I have a brush and a jump. I have installed a messy driver. It's time to get everything done. That's not the case. Although this hard disk can be found in the BIOS during startup, it cannot enter the operating system and prompts "disk boot failure, insert system disk and press ENTER ". What's the problem? It's not a problem with the system. So I pulled the SATA hard disk and started it again. It's okay. It seems it's still related to the hard disk. On the top of the forum, I was asked by BBS. The next day I had to answer the question: Set SATA mode-to ide in bios and via SATA ide raid-to enabled. As if I had caught a life-saving straw, I immediately entered the BIOS. I can see that the SATA mode is ide. What does the via SATA ide RAID Mean? I don't know, no matter what it means, it is set to enabled. Restart the system. Hey, you can. You have entered the operating system. But no, why can't you find this hard disk on my computer? I'm in a bad mood, go to BBS and ask again. Right-click my computer, choose manage> disk management, and check whether the hard disk exists. A Look, it was really there, so I had to format it for a long time. I came back and saw how it was different from my IDE hard disk. I took a closer look, it was a dynamic disk, the original IDE is a basic disk. Check the differences between a basic disk and a dynamic disk. I have learned something about basic disks that can be partitioned. A dynamic disk does not have a partition concept, but only a volume, dynamic disks can be expanded but cannot be backed up using ghost. Basic disks can be easily converted to dynamic disks, But converting from dynamic disks to basic disks damages data in disks. After talking about this, I feel that it is not very practical. I just want to know from a practical perspective whether I should use dynamic disks or basic disks in the current situation. If I couldn't find a solution, I went to the BBS and asked, "No one answered after a day on the BBS. One person on csdn replied that basic disks are good, but not why. Later I thought about it myself. I 'd like to convert it to a basic disk. It's easy to back up the ghost, and now it's a blank hard disk. There's no loss in the past. If it's full of stuff, it will be troublesome to switch it, on the other hand, if you want to switch back in the future, it seems easy to switch from basic disk to Dynamic Disk, with no loss.
As stated on the internet, you only need to right-click the disk in disk management, convert it directly, and then partition it. However, when you right-click the disk, the conversion option is not displayed. Are you sure you want to use the official hard drive software for low-level partitioning? I can't find it on Seagate's official website. No. Try it with the XP installation disk. Okay, you can. Haha, it's so excited. Just start from the disc, delete the partition, create the partition, and you'll get it done twice, after entering the system, follow the prompts to format it. Ah, it's done. Copy all movies and music to this disk. 230 GB, although only GB can be used, there are also many. After copying, there are still a lot left. Think about whether such a large hard disk has only one partition is a waste. If you want to install the system on this hard disk in the future, you will not be able to install it. But now I have copied the data. Can I partition the free space of the hard disk without damaging the existing data? The Internet is good. If you have any questions, you can check it immediately. Well, the partition magician (PQ) can do it. However, there is still a risk. You 'd better back up the data before partitioning. I read the relevant information and found that the more partitions, the less available disk capacity. Think about my old ide which already has GB of four partitions, and now I don't play dual systems. This hard disk is mainly used to store movies and music, so there is no need to partition again, if you want to score points in the future, use PQ again, and it is already a basic disk. Then you can use ghost to back up data before partitioning.
Haha, that's all done. Watch a movie ~~

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