Hi, I'm about to setup a new system and I'm using a WD Sata 2 hard disk. In my BIOS it says for SATA 2 operation I have IDE and SATA mode and IDE is the default. The motherboard manual says that I do not need to make a boot disk if I use IDE mode, but I do if I want SATA 2 set in SATA mode. I don't have a floppy drive, and would have to buy one. What is the difference in the setting? The motherboard does not say, if I use the IDE default will it run slower, and if so how much slower?
Also, if I set it as IDE and then installed my XP Pro with SP2 and all the updates and then set it to SATA would that work?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Also, if I set it as IDE and then installed my XP Pro with SP2 and all the updates and then set it to SATA would that work?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you