Wed Oct 08, 2008 9:43 am
After I posted this, I realized that I already had another SATA drive in an external enclosure plugged into another USB port, so the unused motherboard SATA port shouldn't be an issue. I installed Seagate tools to format the drive, but had to boot after doing it, so at that time, the drive had no information on it. On another boot, I had hit delete to go into BIOS, but... must of knocked the keyboard wrong powering off/on the new drive and it skipped that and went right into Windows. I know it's now formatted as a one partition logical drive with no boot info, but will explore BIOS next time I have to shut the sytem down.