what is the diffrence between SATA hard drive and the other hard drives?
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http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/Serial_ATA.html
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your answer is here http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs_basics.htm
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check your Linux's distro, if compatible to using SATA hard drive, then you can install like usual you install windows, also set your motherboard to detect the SATA hard drive. Mostly, Linux's Distro at this time using GUI instalation, so it's not hard to install to hard drive
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It sounds like there is a lose connection between the hard drive and the motherboard.  Check your ribbon cable.  If that is not it maybe do a chkdsk/f to check for any errors the drive may have.
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SATA stands for Serial Advanced Technology Attachment.  See the link below for more information.
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You mean SATA II hard drives. Well SATA II hard drives are the most common for home PCs and it is actually very common since it is one of the only types you can get for a home PC. The reason you are having trouble finding your hard drive is due to the size you want it to be. Most PCs carry only a 250 GB or 300 GB hard drive. Rarely could you buy a PC that carries anything larger. Therefore you would rarely find one for sale at that size. What you may want to do is buy two 250GB SATA II drives for a combination of 500GB. This may cost a bit more though unless you pre-order these 500 GB drives, you won't have much selection in normal electronic stores.\n\nEDIT: When you are looking for hard drives, make sure you are looking for internal hard drives, and for desktop PCs.
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just buy a good drive, maxtor ( now seagate ) or western digital\nmake sure the interface is the same ( it's probaly PATA and not SATA is you got a 33gb hardrive ), most all are 7200 rpm\nyour biggest problem will be weather or not your bios can handle a drive over 137Gb if you get one that big, you also did not mention your OS, and what you be foramtting the drive to ( FAT32 or NTFS ).
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go to http://maxtor.com/_files/maxtor/en_us/documentation/installation_guides/sata_installation_guide.pdf\nfor full documentation on installing the drive \nthen go to \nhttp://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxtor/menuitem.3c67e325e0a6b1f6294198b091346068/?channelpath=/en_us/Support/Software%20Downloads/Top%20Downloads&downloadID=57\n\ndownload MaxBlast 4.0 for windows - easy installation utility
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With the small speed difference, I'd go with the slower proc and use the savings to invest in more memory which will have a bigger impact on system performance.  If you've already topped out on memory, go with a faster hard drive, like SATA II (300) perpendicular recording drives.
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sata drives have 2 cables, the first being the red 4 pin data transfer cable and the second being the black power connector\n         they are pretty similar to ata drives as they need a power source and a data cable \n          the good thing about sata drives is that if you have 2 or more you can set up a r.a.i.d (redundant array of inexpensive disks) were you can mirror disks to create faster data access
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Not sure if SATA is an IDE cable. This is what a SATA cable looks like:\nhttp://rds.yahoo.com/S=96062883/K=SATA+Cable/v=2/SID=w/l=IVR/;_ylt=A0Je5qc6GUREhwwBah6jzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTBsZDVtbHJqBHNlYwNwcm9mBHZ0aWQDU0NEXzIwMA--/SIG=12uha92ii/EXP=1145399994/*-http%3A//www.tekcomputersuk.com/sata-data-cable-7pin-to-7pin-48cm-p-704.html\nThere are SATA to IDE converters or "dongles" such as:\nhttp://cgi.ebay.com/Serial-ATA-to-IDE-Adapter-SATA-HD-to-UATA-133-Converter_W0QQitemZ8795550962QQcategoryZ167QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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I work in a computer store and this is really a matter of opinion.  Every day I meet people who hate WD and love Seagate or Maxtor and vice versa.  It's like asking what's better Ford or Chevy.  I would do some searching and try to find out which has the lowest defect rate.  My experience is they are all about the same.  I would say WD will give you better performance (make sure you buy an 8 or 16MB cache, not 2, and if you have SATA, buy a SATA2 drive with the 3Gbps transfer rate, it's compatabile with SATA1 and about the same price.)  Seagate has a five year warranty which is hard to pass up.
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You can't "make" a hard drive an SATA2 drive.  It either was SATA2 when you bought it, or it wasn't.  You're talking about RAID 0, which can be done with either SATA1 or SATA2 drives.\n\nRAID will make a definite difference in throughput, but those weren't fast drives to begin with.  I'd recommend you spend $95 on a drive that's almost 3 times as big, and roughly 3x as fast: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148140  Then, just use the Maxtor as either a spare drive, or as additionaly storage space.
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No, both hard drives are 4.3 GB. Just check for bad clusters (format it) and if they are OK you can use them
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sata\nhere's two articles that are really informative.
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If you are on a very tight budget, then get an internal 3.5 inch hard disk drive IDE or ATA will be adequate.  Buy the enclosure, separately.  You will be able to save a lot of money and you will be able to get a bigger hard disk drive.\n\nIf money is no object and dont want the hassle of putting everything together then buy a retail external hard disk drive.  However, the capacity of the hard disk will be relatively low when compared to the price.\n\nThe main difference is that a retail ready drive comes pre-configured with software and is truly plug and play.  If you open it up, you are not going to see anything different.\n\nPutting together and setting it up is easy.  A little patience is all that is required.  I have three external hard disks.  I managed to get some bargains online.  Saved a bundle.\n\nI have written a couple of guides on this, it may prove to be useful.  See below
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I can give you a link that deals with hard drive problems.\nSome hard drive problems can be easily fixed yourself by using easily available tools. I found the info at http://fixit.in useful