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HD Setup Options, which to install Windows?

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mplutodh1

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So my Maxtor 300G 16mb cache drive showed up today along with my eVGA personal cinema card. I tried to install the cinema card but have had so many problems both evga and I think I need to restart with a fresh install of windows. I was ready to send the card back in thinking it was DOA but before doing that tested it in a spare box I had that didn't have SP2 installed yet and nothing else on there, worked like a charm...

So with that said I am going to reinstall windows. So my question is this: I have a 200Gig Seagate PATA drive that currently has windows installed on it along with some other storage for mp3s etc. My initial thought was to install the new drive as just a storage drive but now that I have to reinstall windows I am not so sure about that.

I always like to install windows on a different drive then I had in the past that way any of the settings or files (fonts, etc) from the old system that I forget to backup, I can just jump to that drive and move them over. Then after a few months when I know things work fine I reformat that partition so it's just storage after that.

Should I install Windows on the SATA drive instead of the IDE? Being that it was larger it was originally going to just be a storage drive, but everyone I know has suggested I use the Maxtor with the 16mb cache as my system drive cuz it might boot and load programs faster.

Suggestions or thoughts?
 
Go with the faster Drive (prolly the Maxtor) and this time put in the SATA Drivers (F8) when you install) although you most likely won't realize a real time difference between the 2
 
The normal consensus would be to put the OS on the faster drive. If you do this, you'll probably need to set aside a generous partition of 30 gigs or so for the OS, and the rest as a single drive.

I'd leave the other drive unparititioned.
 
So i have never had a SATA drive, I know I need to install SATA drivers when running XP install, however, all I see for my board are SATA Raid drivers, I don't want to run a RAID setup, any ideas on what driver I need? It is for my Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro 2 Rev 2 board.
 
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