When I first built my pc, my Seagate SATA drive arrived DOE, so I used a older 100GB IDE Maxtor and used Windows 7 x86 without problems for about a month. The drive has since been used as a backup drive by my brother for the past 9 months. It has had no problems till now.
I installed it...
backup drive
bios
cable issues
data transfer
disk management
drivers
error reporting
formatfailure
hard drive
ide
installation
jumpers
maxtor
pass tests
registry
sata
seagate
storage
troubleshooting
windows 7
