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Apex
03-04-2008, 02:16 AM
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bhome83
03-04-2008, 02:34 PM
hey guys, can anyone tell me how i know if SATA HDD's work in my computer? Also, can i make this drive an external drive formatted to FAT32? Thanks.
DarkFury
03-04-2008, 08:36 PM
hey guys, can anyone tell me how i know if SATA HDD's work in my computer? Also, can i make this drive an external drive formatted to FAT32? Thanks.
Does your motherboard have a SATA port?

A SATA port looks like this:

http://images.tomshardware.com/2005/11/23/pc_interfaces_101/sata.jpg

or this...

http://www.hardwarezone.com/img/data/articles/2007/2387/p6ngm_sata.jpg

And yes... a SATA drive can be formatted in FAT32. However if you are running WinXP and are using this as your OS drive, I'd recommend using NTFS instead.
bhome83
03-04-2008, 10:25 PM
ill have to check on my mobo tomorrow. So can i SATA drive be used externally?
also, the reason i want FAT32 is cuz im buying a dvd player with a usb port so i can play my music, video etc. files off of my hdd, and it requires FAT32. THanks for the help.
DarkFury
03-04-2008, 11:05 PM
These are internal drives. If you want to use it externally, you would have to buy some kind of external SATA to USB adapter casing.