How do I setup this new system?

[bluey]

Here goes, I have only one weekend to build my new computer while I am home from school so I am trying to get questions and possible problems out of the way before I get there. I have a WD800JB and the new drive is a Seagate 120GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive. I am thinking I want the Seagate to be my boot drive and then I can put games and music and all that on the WD. But if the WD is faster then I can use that as my boot drive. What ever you guys think is best. The hard part, how do set this up for the first time? Do I plug them both in? Just the SATA and then install the XPpro and then plug in the WD? Does it matter? To make a SATA a boot drive sounds like I just put in the XP disk and then hit f6 and use a floppy that should come with my MSI K8T NEO-FIS2R.

THanks for the help, I am sure I'll probably need more.

 

[yezhou]

Yeah you can put them both in...just make sure you have the SATA drivers on a floppy for installation. During Windows install, it'll ask you to "Hit F6" to install the SATA drivers...from then on you should eb able to see it as an option for which drive you want to put the OS on...that's pretty much it. Personally I'd put the the SATA as the boot drive...but currently SATA drives are pretty much the same as regular IDEs...so you might want to make your choice based on the size of the HDDs? How big is the WD? If its not big then it might not make a very good drive to store files in...

By the way, I don't see why you would want to put your programs on a different drive...if you decide to format your OS, you'd have to reinstall the programs anyways since their registries would be non-existent. So basically, OS+Programs on one drive/partition...then all your files on another drive/partition.