Hi guys, wondering if someone could help me out here. I have a old 2002 PC with an ASUS P4PE mobo. Yesterday I just bought a new WD 1.5 external HD, which supports eSata. I had to transfer 100GB of movies last night from PC to HD....PAINFUL via USB. Anyways, Im wondering how I should go about getting this eSata to work with my PC. From what I understand this connection method will be WAY faster when trasnfering large files. I think the P4PE support sata (not 100% sure)....If it does, do I simply get a cable and run from the external drive straight to the mobo?
perhaps I should just look at upgrading my whole PC and get with stuff more current? Wonder how far 4-500 bucks could get me
You mean stick something like this into my PC? http://cgi.ebay.com/eSATA-SATA-Seri...emQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item19b3c05f39
well, i bought an eSata PCI card today. Installed it, and cant for the life of me get it to work. The thing didnt come with any drivers (not sure if it was supposed to). Under device mgr its giving me the yellow ! identifying theres a prob. I tried to uninstall/reinstall etc, tried scanning for drivers etc all with no luck. The card is a "Coltech eSata/PCI card". Anyone have any thoughts on how to troublshoot? External drive Im trying to use is a WD Mybook Home 1.5TB.... Im depressed now.
ok, just found the driver cd that came with the packaging. (dont laugh im not a tard, i didnt realize it was a mini-cd which actually must have fallen on the floor) Anywway, i ran the install etc. My PC seems to see everything under device mgr, HOWEVER, when I simply go into "my computer" to view the Hard Drives etc. Its showing 2 Local Disks. ie. Local Disk (C and Local Disk (G I assume this is some sort of conflict? Is there a setting I need to change in the bios? What do ya think?
Probably meens you need to use computer management to initialize, format, and assign a letter to the drive.
