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Cyborg-haf
I have a system with multiple drives, including a WD-2500JD drive on a
Promise TX-2 SATA card. I presently boot of a WD-1200JB drive on my Asus
A-7V133 motherboard EIDE primary channel. I got the SATA drive with the
idea of using it as the boot drive in the next motherboard I get (eventually
when I can afford to upgrade). Would there be performance penalty using the
SATA drive as a boot drive (loading the SATA card driver during setup so it
recognizes the drive) though I'm not clear how I get rid the old WindowsXP
SP2 install on the EIDE drive. I've got Ghost to copy my boot partition and
so on, but prefer to do a clean install of WinXP and all my programs on
partitions on the SATA drive and use the EIDE drives for data storage. Is
there a way in WindowsXP setup to format my present C: partition and then do
an install in another partition on a different drive? I don't know if there
is performance penalty in using a SATA drive on a SATA PCI card rather than
SATA onboard connectors on a new motherboard. When I do a cold boot I get a
boot menu listing drives though my SATA drive isn't one of them listed (just
lists the WD-1200JB drives as master and slave on the primary EIDE channel
as choices, and my optical drives as boot choices). During reboots the SATA
detection happens after the EIDE drive detection is done in Bios (before PCI
listings during hardware detection). I used to have a dual boot setup with
WindowsXP Home and Windows 98 in another partition back when all my hardware
wasn't recognized in XP though I found XP drivers for all my hardware in
couple of months after release. I've never have had more than one install
of the same version of WindowsXP in two drives at the same time to see if
will even boot or offer me a choice of install to boot from allowing me to
format the other install partition from Windows.
Any advice or help would be appreciated,
Herb
Promise TX-2 SATA card. I presently boot of a WD-1200JB drive on my Asus
A-7V133 motherboard EIDE primary channel. I got the SATA drive with the
idea of using it as the boot drive in the next motherboard I get (eventually
when I can afford to upgrade). Would there be performance penalty using the
SATA drive as a boot drive (loading the SATA card driver during setup so it
recognizes the drive) though I'm not clear how I get rid the old WindowsXP
SP2 install on the EIDE drive. I've got Ghost to copy my boot partition and
so on, but prefer to do a clean install of WinXP and all my programs on
partitions on the SATA drive and use the EIDE drives for data storage. Is
there a way in WindowsXP setup to format my present C: partition and then do
an install in another partition on a different drive? I don't know if there
is performance penalty in using a SATA drive on a SATA PCI card rather than
SATA onboard connectors on a new motherboard. When I do a cold boot I get a
boot menu listing drives though my SATA drive isn't one of them listed (just
lists the WD-1200JB drives as master and slave on the primary EIDE channel
as choices, and my optical drives as boot choices). During reboots the SATA
detection happens after the EIDE drive detection is done in Bios (before PCI
listings during hardware detection). I used to have a dual boot setup with
WindowsXP Home and Windows 98 in another partition back when all my hardware
wasn't recognized in XP though I found XP drivers for all my hardware in
couple of months after release. I've never have had more than one install
of the same version of WindowsXP in two drives at the same time to see if
will even boot or offer me a choice of install to boot from allowing me to
format the other install partition from Windows.
Any advice or help would be appreciated,
Herb