catilley1092
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I'm going to make this as short as possible to avoid any confusion, last night, I removed my second drive (my original one) from it's case and placed it into my computer to load Vista SP2, 7 Home Premium & Linux Mint 9. Originally, I was going to install XP Media Center Edition, but for whatever reason, it was no go. The other OS's loaded fine while in my computer's SATA plug for it.
When I try to start it up from the boot menu through a USB port, only Mint starts up. Both Vista & 7 will try, then it goes into a boot cycle. Mint runs perfectly fine.
OK, to my main point here. I don't have the cash yet to buy the part that c_c suggested (an adapter that supports up to five eSATA devices). Is there a simple cord that I can hookup to the connection inside of my computer, and then (if possible) a couple of cases to install the drives in, preferably with an eSATA port for when I can buy the part that I really need. If the cases aren't available to work like this, then a simple cable to quickly swap drives will work for now. I'm getting tired of pulling one drive out and putting another one in, I want a fast, temporary way to do this.
Secondly, is the reason that XP won't install due to the drives being too large? I've read that 127 or 137GB is the limit that XP or 2K "sees". I previously had a desktop that had a 500GB drive, and XP Pro ran fine on it. But they were probably IDE drives (Dell GX280 Optiplex), this may explain as to why. Would purchasing a small one (120GB SATA) solve this problem?
Many thanks to any suggestions that will help, please remember, I'm looking for a short term solution to run my drives until I can buy the correct setup, without the extensive use of VM's to make everything work.
Cat
When I try to start it up from the boot menu through a USB port, only Mint starts up. Both Vista & 7 will try, then it goes into a boot cycle. Mint runs perfectly fine.
OK, to my main point here. I don't have the cash yet to buy the part that c_c suggested (an adapter that supports up to five eSATA devices). Is there a simple cord that I can hookup to the connection inside of my computer, and then (if possible) a couple of cases to install the drives in, preferably with an eSATA port for when I can buy the part that I really need. If the cases aren't available to work like this, then a simple cable to quickly swap drives will work for now. I'm getting tired of pulling one drive out and putting another one in, I want a fast, temporary way to do this.
Secondly, is the reason that XP won't install due to the drives being too large? I've read that 127 or 137GB is the limit that XP or 2K "sees". I previously had a desktop that had a 500GB drive, and XP Pro ran fine on it. But they were probably IDE drives (Dell GX280 Optiplex), this may explain as to why. Would purchasing a small one (120GB SATA) solve this problem?
Many thanks to any suggestions that will help, please remember, I'm looking for a short term solution to run my drives until I can buy the correct setup, without the extensive use of VM's to make everything work.
Cat