Been told that my hard drive is weakest link on my pc performance wise and believe its currently IDE???

Ive bought 2x western digital sata drives, what do i need to do?

Im 99% sure the motherboard will take sata. I would like it to boot with windows XP pro from the sata and so wanna transfer windows i think????

PC Spec:
Gigabyte Ga-8ipe1000PRO-G S478 865PE ATX Sound GIG LAN Firewire USB 2.0 Retail Box

Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHZ 800FSB SKT478 512Kb Cache Retail Boxed

Seagate ST3120026A 120GB 7200rpm 8mb Cache Barracuda 7200.7 Plus - OEM

4x Samsung Original 512mb PC3200 DDR400 184pin Memory Module

Sapphire Radeon 9600 AGP X8 256MB DDR DVI TV-Out Retail Box

 

I had two SATA Raptors (10,000rpm) in RAID-0, I can tell you that RAID really doesn't make much difference unless you're going to link 4 HDDS and use it for some serious read/writing :P

I just use them as two seperate drives now....

Just because its SATA150 doesn't mean it'll start writing at 150mb/sec, the best hard discs write at a max of 60 (SCSI)

 

Right,

The best way to do this, is to install one of the sata drives, boot into windows, let it plug and play, create a partition on it. And then copy your documents and stuff that you want off your ide hard drive.

Then, disconnect both drives, and plug in your other sata drive and do a fresh install of windows xp. You will need the sata driver disk that came with your motherboard to do this. Once XP is installed, connect your other sata drive and let windows install it.

Once that is done, connect up your IDE hard drive, boot into the BIOS and change 1st boot device to the SATA drive that has windows on it. Then, format the IDE drive and keep it as a backup drive.

You could use Norton Ghost to copy the drive image from the IDE to the SATA drive if you really wanted to, but I doubt it would be 100% successful.

HTH

 

Lovely, cheers Dan.

Will follow that when ebuyer send me the right fooking drives (sent one WD and one Maxtor)