I have two IDE WD hardrives, Master with XP Pro is 80 gig and slave is 160 gig.
Have just bought a WD1600JD SATA 160GB 7200RPM hard drive
Read here about installing it
but am unsure about a couple of thing of things that I am hoping someone could help me out with please.
1 : Would it be better to have the new drive as my OS drive or won't it make much difference just leaving it as a slave drive for data / work?
2 : If I should make the new drive my OS boot drive, is it possible to just move my current OS from the IDE drive to the SATA drive?
3 : If question 2 is a yes, then how?
4 : Can I set the new hard drive up (formating, partitions etc) using Partition Magic instead of using XP like the above link says.
Any help or advice will be gratefully appreciated
Have just bought a WD1600JD SATA 160GB 7200RPM hard drive
Read here about installing it
Code:
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1778&page=9
1 : Would it be better to have the new drive as my OS drive or won't it make much difference just leaving it as a slave drive for data / work?
2 : If I should make the new drive my OS boot drive, is it possible to just move my current OS from the IDE drive to the SATA drive?
3 : If question 2 is a yes, then how?
4 : Can I set the new hard drive up (formating, partitions etc) using Partition Magic instead of using XP like the above link says.
Any help or advice will be gratefully appreciated