Sounds like your jumpers are screwy for some reason. Sure they're correct?

And you don't write zeros to a drive.

And tell me why you would ever want a 200GB unit to house an OS. That's...

XP base install, or XP Pro SP1?

Hell, does it even matter since it's USB? This of course is assuming that the controller in the external case is more than capable of reading the entire 250GB...

So, in Windows, computer #1 doesn't see the drive, correct?

You need to browse to Computer Management by right-clicking "My Computer" on your desktop, then clicking "Manage."

From there,...

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Use a 2k or XP cd and use the utility there to format it. But don't actually install it if that's not what you want.

You have got to be kidding me. Nice phone number. Mind listing your full name, mailing address, and current credit card numbers as well?

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Navigate to "Computer Management," then down to...

Tall's right, but I would check for a BIOS update first. You'll need your motherboard make and model before doing anything.

If you can't find a BIOS that will support the larger drive then be...

Just ignore it.

I know it's a little cumbersome to have that box pop up after removing the pen drive, but it's mainly because 2k sucks at handling stuff like that.

Don't like the popup? Use...

You do know that a SATA drive is just a SCSI drive with a different controller, don't you? That's why they're so comparable in performance.

I have to add this because I had a lapse in...

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It's the default setting for most BIOS' though!

But a Raptor is not a SCSI drive. It's SATA.

I was only clarifying.

Actually, you don't have to enter the BIOS for the system to recognize a new drive, if the setting for that channel/primary:secondary is set to Auto. That's the default setting for all systems.

You're pressing F6 at the initial loading screen, correct?

Try downloading a newer driver.

Is the drive jumper set to Master?

A Raptor by definition is an SATA drive, not SCSI.

I'll give you this though, it is essentially a SCSI disk with a different interface.

Ah. :)

Happy burning then!

What's the version of your nForce drivers? You should have a Primary and Secondary IDE channel regardless of your system, unless it is disabled in the BIOS.

And I noticed that you have a SCSI or...

404 error.

It should be under "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers." You have one, definitely.

It's under Device Manager. Look for the "IDE\ATAPI Controllers," and double click the "Primary IDE" selection.

You should see a "Settings" tab on the top of the window that pops up. Click it. ...

Not to bash by any means, but that's just...odd. Mirror or Stripe? And it would be a hardware RAID if you're controlling things via the RAID BIOS on your motherboard.

To be honest, I've never...

Those are actually nice drives. The 8MB cache will help out with speed a little bit. I'd go ahead and pick one up.

All I have is the RAID set in my machine, and when I need more space (which...

Well, yes and no.

If you're accessing data from the slave drive (read), and you have your page file on the primary (write), yes, you'll see some slowdown. Not enough to notice, so it's really...

Oh.

Technically, it will access things slower, since they will be on the same IDE channel. IDE doesn't read and write on a channel at the same time, let alone read/read, write/write, read/write...

Yes, all will be answered when you purchase the drive. And the flat grey cable is the IDE cable, and the one with the four wires coming out of it is the molex power connection.

And for your...