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Jambo	posted on 30th Dec 07 at 20:24
	yeah, power on, LEDs all lit up, but didnt register on the pc
John	posted on 30th Dec 07 at 19:50
	And when you had it plugged into the sata on the motherboard did you have the power adapter plugged into the drive?
John	posted on 30th Dec 07 at 19:49
	Can't see properly in the picture but that'll be esata, there would be no reason to have a normal sata port on an external enclosure.
Jambo	posted on 30th Dec 07 at 19:39
	probably wont help but heres some pics :o
Jambo	posted on 30th Dec 07 at 19:37
	: :lol: :(
Richie	posted on 30th Dec 07 at 19:37
	You plank Jambo :lol: Its an E-SATA port.... the E stands for external.... [Edited on 30-12-2007 by Richie]
Jambo	posted on 30th Dec 07 at 19:29
	yes its external John. I plugged a sata cable to the mother board, the port at the back says SATA not esata. Trying to find the driver online
John	posted on 30th Dec 07 at 19:27
	Is this an external drive I take it, if it plugs in via usb I doubt it has sata. Maybe esata but you don't open the case for that.
Jambo	posted on 30th Dec 07 at 19:26
	just popped the disk in and its only got the driver for Windows 98 :\| Poop.
ed	posted on 30th Dec 07 at 19:22
	USB 2.0 is 480Mbits/second where as dependant of your computer and disk you can get up to 3.0Gbits/second on SATA...
Jambo	posted on 30th Dec 07 at 19:17
	:thumbs: Nice one ed :)
ed	posted on 30th Dec 07 at 19:14
	USB = slow in comparison to SATA II interface...
Jambo	posted on 30th Dec 07 at 19:12
	well my idea was to transfer my itunes and all music/pictures onto it. Is it speed the difference then?
Jamescorsa97	posted on 30th Dec 07 at 19:01
	Depends what your using the HDD for? Its for everyday use and simple tasks liek storage you won't notice much difference.
Jambo	posted on 30th Dec 07 at 18:58
	its not a problem to use USB just wondered if there was an advantage? Theres i disk i have just found i will install the drivers :)
Richie	posted on 30th Dec 07 at 18:55
	Probably need to install SATA drivers for your system or enable SATA in the BIOS. You got any uninstalled devices in device manager? Did you try the other SATA port? Some SATA ports are for RAID configs only.
Jamescorsa97	posted on 30th Dec 07 at 18:51
	LOL jambob
Jambo	posted on 30th Dec 07 at 18:50
	lol thats the one!
chris_uk	posted on 30th Dec 07 at 18:46
	sata?
Jambo	posted on 30th Dec 07 at 18:45
	Ok bear with me with this thread, im not a geek and dont know the techy terms so will describe best i can! Came with a Saati? connection so i undid the case, there were 2 possible connections, plugged it into the left hand one. Did case back up etc... Plugged power in didnt recognize it :boggle: Like it wasnt there, no error messages of sorts. Then noticed it was USB compatible so plugged that in and it worked :D Any reason the Saati one didnt work?? Is there a benefit to using it?