are there different types of internal hard drives that go with different motherboards?
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You will get the right answer from the vendor when you buy a new hard drive by giving the following details.\n\n1.The make and model of the motherboard and\n2.The version of Windows you are  using.\n\nAll new hard disks now come with SATA (serial ATA) connection.  The preferred speed is 7200 rpm but for laptops many people settle for lower speed of 5000 rpm since they are cheaper.\n\nOld motherboards like Socket 7 can recognize hard disks with maximum 20GB capacity in LBA mode in 2-5GB capacity running Windows 98SE. \n\nWhen you use Windows 98, disk fragmentation in partitions with only 2GB capacity can be be done faster than the larger size partitions of 3-5GB. \n\nLatest motherboards like ASUS P4V8X-X running Windows XP can read large capacity hard disks. The speed depends on the RAM. Older SD RAMs are slower but DDR RAM modules run much faster.\n\nAll external hard drives are recognized instantly by Windows XP but you have to install a driver if you are using Windows 98SE.\n\nWhen you buy a new hard disk, you must always ask for the vendor's confirmation about the compatibility by giving the version of Windows you are using and also the motherboard maker's model number. Otherwise, you may have difficulty getting the replacement.
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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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this depends on your motherboard.  You should be able to do it, though.  Make sure you set windows up on the SATA drive before installing the others.
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Check the link below.  I like Seagate and Western Digital.
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SATA is abbreviation from Serial ATA. The old connection from hard disk to mother board is using Ultra ATA where you acccess one hard disk one at a time. So if there are two hard disks, the mother board will switch one another to read datas from the hard disk.\nHowever, using the SATA Hard disk, with SATA connectors and SATA supported motherboard, the motherboard can get the data from two hard disk simultaneously. Therefore SATA hard disk will be faster than Ultra ATA or IDE hard disk. (With condition that there are 2 hard disks at once).\nOtherwise, if there is only one hard disk... can't really tell the difference. But I believe the SATA is better since it is newer.
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SATA is better because you dont need to bother with those bulky wide IDE cables. SATA drives also dont have jumpers and are much easier to work with.
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There are thoudsands ones. And over 90% mainboard support for DDR (DDR1 as you said), which may also support DDR2.  We have other 2 types are DRam and Ram Bus, but they are "pasted" way.\n\nJust read the information on the wrbsites of these companies, you will know what type of memory they support
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Your motherboard may not support this large of a hard drive.  I imagine that it's like 4 heads, 2 platters, 16000 cylinders or something.  Usually, there are three ways around this:  first, look on the drive and see if there's an alternate way that the master/slave jumpers can be set so that it recognizes the drive as a different configuration (it will identify itself as 16 heads, 8 platters, 4000 cylinders, or something like that, that the motherboard can deal with), and maybe your motherboard will read it then.  Second, when your motherboard auto-detects the drive, there are usually a few different choices for its configuration.  Try selecting a different option with the same size (it will do the multiple-head fake-out in the BIOS without any hardware changes).  Third, go on the Internet and see if there are any BIOS upgrades that will make the board work better with large drives.
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GO INTO BIOS AND ADVANCED SETUP TELL THE COMPUTER TO SEARCH FOR HARD-DRIVE AND IT SHOULD PICK UP BOTH HARD-DRIVES.
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well really depends on what kind of hardrives you have are they IDE or SATA?? sata has raid features on it so you can  also doesnt matter how much space yor disks have to spped up ur system it reallt matters on the system ram
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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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Sata-1 would be a good place for the primary drive. When you expand add to 2, 3 , etc.
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goto http://www.driverguide.com\nMost of the drivers for most drives are there.
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I've never heard that actually, but it makes some sense. The only reason would be if your case is slightly small.. and fitting the drives in can be more difficult once you have a motherboard with processor, heatsink, and all that stuff in the way. However, most cases allow you to install the drive from the front-- making that 'rule of thumb' not right. \n\nDefinitely install the processor/heatsink and RAM modules on the mobo before installing it all inside the case-- that just makes it easier to do it!
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In terms of the mechanics of the drive, yes.  However, an external drive will be connected over a peripheral bus such as USB or Firewire, while an internal drive connects over the PC's internal bus.   Also, external drives sometimes have problems being recognized by Windows, while internal drives only have problems when there is a problem with the drive or the cabling.
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Its not that easy:\nOn your motherboard, you might have two IDE connectors (the name of the connectors used to connect the Hard Disks to the motherboard - you can also have SCSI, which is faster). And on each IDE cable connecting to the IDE connectors, you might have two connectors for a master and a slave.\nMake sure that the hard disk you want to use to boot is configured as the primary master (using jumpers beside the power connectors on the hard disk), and the new hard disk is configured as secondary master, or any slave.\nStart your computer, and (I am assuming that you are using Win XP), partition and format your new hard drive (You can do this by going through Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management)\n\nPlease, if you don't have basic technical skills, I suggest you ask a technician to help you install the hard drive.\n(SCSI and external Hard Drives are easier to install and use.)
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HPs normally do not provide disks, and it can be a real pain. They place a second, small pertition on the hard drive where you hit F10 to perform a Recovery (re-image the PC). This unfortunately means that you cannot use it with the new motherboard.\n\nIt is best to save yourself a whole lot of headache and just buy a Windows XP OEM disk so that you can do what you need to.\n\nYou find out what kind of hard drives you have by:\n1) Going into the Device Mangager list and googleing the model number(s) of your drive(s).\n2) Turning off your computer, open it up and see what the stickers on the drive(s) say.\n\nGood luck!