Worth getting another hard drive?

Dark_Angel

Dark_Angel

Dark_Angel

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Hey,

At the moment I have a 250GB drive (IDE) split in 2 partions, (100 or so for windows, the rest for whatever else) and a 120GB drive (also IDE).

The 120GB drive is pretty old/slow and the 250GB one is 16MB cache 7200RPM (so not bad).

I am pondering to get another drive though, my board is an ASUS P5N-E SLI, so I can quite easily get some sata's going, but never used a sata drive before really. I can't decide which to get for around 70 max (big as possibly obviously) or if I should just get a USB hard drive, in case I wish to take stuff around a friends house or something...

Opinions?
 
BillytheImpaler said:
Yes indeed, sir.
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Sorry to sound a bit of a noob, but is there anything "special" I need to do with the drive? is it just a case of enabling SATA in the BIOS (I think mine is disabled ATM) and then plugging in the hard drive and letting Windows XP find/set it up?

I am running Windows XP SP2, and I remember that on my old SP1 version of windows I had a devil of a time trying to get windows to reconize the fact the drive was over 127GB, I had to download a patch or something :/ I assume no such problems with XP SP2 and that the entire drive will be reconized so I won't have to partion it ?

Then again, maybe I should format again and then move Windows to the SATA drive, but then that seems a heck of a lot of effort when I just got windows how I like it again :/
 
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