Just had a couple questions. My motherboard shows that I am running my Sata 2 HDD in IDE mode. The manual says to run the Sata 2 drive in Sata 2 mode I need to make a driver disk. My two questions:
1. Is there a speed difference if I reinstall my OS and set the HDD to sata 2 mode?
2. I actually slipstreamed the Sata 2 drivers onto my XP CD. If I reinstall using that CD will I need to do anything special now or can I just change the setting in the BIOS to Sata 2 and reinstall. I recall when using the driver disk (which I have never done) that you need to hit the F6 key at the prompt when windows starts installing, will I need to do that if the drivers are slipped onto the installation CD?
1. Is there a speed difference if I reinstall my OS and set the HDD to sata 2 mode?
2. I actually slipstreamed the Sata 2 drivers onto my XP CD. If I reinstall using that CD will I need to do anything special now or can I just change the setting in the BIOS to Sata 2 and reinstall. I recall when using the driver disk (which I have never done) that you need to hit the F6 key at the prompt when windows starts installing, will I need to do that if the drivers are slipped onto the installation CD?