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Since I'm installing Vista and WIn 7 back to back in the build, isn't that almost a clean install?

I am planning a Windows 7 Pro build in November. Any reason not to just get the Vista 64 bit Business with upgrade coupon right now for $149? I'm assuming when it comes time to build I would just install the Vista and then download upgrade and install over that.

Don't mean to be hijacking this thread but I've been thinking of building a really cheap PC to serve as a SageTV server. Do you guys think it would be just as good buying one of these Dell outlet PCs? I'm concerned about expandability, especially in terms of disk.

Matthias - thank you. Sometimes you get so buried in a problem, you can't see the obvious !

I don't even get that far. After continuing without smartdrv it is unable to locate a drive with the required amount of free space.

Ok - this is my first build usually sata drives. I have Asus p5W DH and 3 sata drives. When I run winnt, it says it does not see a disk with enough space to install xp. My drives are WD 250gb and Seagate 320 gbs. When I run fdisk, I see 3 fixed hard drives but only 40mb and 42mb for the...

Sweet keyboard ! A little pricey though and I already have a Premiere Pro keyboard and a Shuttle controller.

Thanks ! Just bought one.

Out of stock, and Google Checkout is disabled for it. Maybe they'll get it back in stock soon. Would love to get it at this price.

Was waiting for the new year to buy but had to jump on this one for the Antec Sonata with $50 rebate and free shipping bump !

First time building with Sata drives. Drives are 3.0 Gbps, I'm assuming that's SATA II ? Need to get cables but there are so many available, what do I need? I'm assuming anything that says SATA 150 is not compatible?

I see a lot of cheap $20 USB2 3.5" hdd enclosures. Can anyone recommend a reliable one and where I can get it? or do the cheap ones work just as well?

I am planning to build in January so that might be an option then for me.

PATA only for the scratch disk, otherwise SATA for all other drives.

Thanks for the info about the cooler. I'm now thinking of going P5W DH for dual IDE. I'm thinking I can use an older IDE HDD as a scratch drive. Do you think that's a good idea?