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#1 icemoney07
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the sata drives are built in on the mobo and ive tried to install 3rd party drivers what disk do i enter because ive tried entering the mobo disk and that doesnt work and my hard drive doesnt have anyhting to install i got it hooked up from the psu sata plug should i plug a sata cord from the psu in to the sata port and then run the slave offfthat too the hard drive or do i have it hooked up right and how do u update bios without a floppy drive
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#2 icemoney07
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i have an asus 650i sli plus and where do u hit alt f 2 and u need a flash drive to update it are they cheap nd where do u get it
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#3 icemoney07
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how do u automatically update it without having an os installed what process did u do
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#4 icemoney07
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will an external hard drive be ok used to install windows xp this is a brand new computer and im trying to get it to work but when i go to install  windows it says i dont have a hard drive installed and i dont know how to solve this prblem and no i havent updated my bios because im teying to figure out if u defiantely need a floppy drive or what to make it work without windows because i cant get it to install
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#5 icemoney07
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i have a 650i sli plus mobo and i need to update my bios so i can install hard drive because mine wont read and was wondering do u need to update ur bios through floppy drive only or is there another way i need help making this work

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#6 icemoney07
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no my bios does not recognize the sata hardrive and the version of windoes im u sing is xp version 2002 and i have an asus 650i sli plus mobo
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#7 icemoney07
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do u know a lot of info on formatting a hard drive. i bought a new computer and this is the only thing i got left and my os is not picking up my internal hard drive and have no idea how to look for it in the bios can u help me ouit
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are external hard drives really that much slower than internal ones and are external harddrives plug and play ready and arethey pretty stable because i cannot get my os to pick up my harddrive and i was wondering if external ones work pretty good
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how do u format it on a brand new computer because im trying to set up windows xp and it says i do not have a hard drive installed in the setup process and i know u look in the bios but i dont know where to see where it is listed as downloaded

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#10 icemoney07
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do u need to do anything besides plug and play on an external hard drive and can u use this hard drive as ur regular hard drive u set up a new computer with it and do u have to go to bios and set it up or is it auto because the hard drivei have says it cannot find a hard drive installed and i know u check in the bios but i dont know where and my mobo is 650 i sli plus assus for info plz help me on this situation