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You're welcome Drew.
Members still need more information on the new SATA III HD (make and complete model #)
The SATA III (6 Gb/s) drive should work on the SATA II (3 Gb/s) ports on your Mobo - SATA is backward compatible (thanks for poking me on that Ken - the meds after dental work make thinking a little slow)
Here's what I would do if it were my machine.
- Backup my personal data
- Reset BIOS to defaults
- Use the 320 GB drive as boot
- Install Windows following this Tutorial:
Clean Install Windows 7
Create new install media per the tut
Special case USB Flash & UEFI install
- Once Windows 7 is up-to-date (all Windows Update offers have been downloaded and installed), then figure out the new drive.
- Use the new drive for data.
A mechanical drive isn't going to achieve the 6 Gb/s or the 3Gb/s xfer rate, so it doesn't matter if you put the OS on the faster capable drive. Remember it's Giga bits, not Giga Bytes - plus there's some overhead involved.
See: Sata 6Gb/s HDD at sata 3Gb/s speeds - Hard Drives - Storage
and
SATA 6 Gb/s - Hard Drives - Storage
This strategy allows you to put your data on the second drive and move it to a new machine in the future.
Your strategy might be different.
Bill
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This worked, but everything is cripplingly slow.
Slartybartfast, clean install is running right now, the drive's just been formatted but It's so slow now. Sorry i dont have the make and model of the HDD, forgot to look at it while i was down with the machine :Z.
I'll post when the super-slow install is completed.
Drewshki
That's fine Drew, a Clean install might solve all of your woes anyway.
There is one thing you should check when you're through the install process (before going through the WU cycle)
Open Disk Management and check that only the System partition is Active (it could be your boot part, depending on how you install, but normally the Active part is the 100 MB System reserve (might be 200 MB - again it depends.)
Please post information about your drives after the install is completed.
See: Disk Management - Post a Screen Capture Image
Thanks
Go over this checklist to make sure you got everything for Overcoming Windows 7 Installation Failures - Windows 7 Help Forums.
Seagate 500GB Barracuda SATA-600 7200RPM 16MB 3.5" Hard Drive
This is the hard drive that it wont recognise.
Reference manuals (PDF files) - if I got the correct model
- ST500MOD2 Data sheet
- ST500MOD2 Product manual
- Drive Installation Guide
- Trouble shooting
See: 4. I am attempting a new installation of a secondary storage Serial ATA drive in my PC and it is not detected correctly.
It's fairly basic stuff - is the drive formatted?, check your BIOS settings
- Barracuda Support
- Intel Rapid Storage Technology (IRST)
IRST has been known to cause issues on some machines - check the version if installed on your machine.
Either update IRST - or if that doesn't help, then uninstall IRST
Your board has 6 SATA ports(is JMicron involved?), you could try another port - make sure the connector snaps into place.
That's enough to chew on for now - post your results, thanks.
Bill
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Last edited by Slartybart; 14 Jul 2014 at 14:16.
See the attached PDF (pg 1-25 of the manual)
Read the notes at the bottom of the page re: ports 5 & 6 and ports 1-4
There's also a notation on RAID. You might not want RAID, but the notation might apply in your case.