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Last week: I installed a WD Raptor 75GB on a new SiI 3112 controller.
Motherboard is an older MSI K7T-Turbo-R KT133A. I installed XP-Pro (sp2
slipstream) on the drive- single partition, disk 0. I made the mistake of
spending 20+ hours loading all of my applications and settings on this new
drive.
Now: since I have some older 7200rpm IDE drives, I would like to add them
to store files/backups. But, when i hook them up, the BIOS makes the IDE
drive letter "C:" and the newer drive "D:". It tries to boot to the older
IDE drive, now.
Question: can I do use these older drives without reloading XP and starting
over? I assume I need an NTFS boot partition on my IDE drive (c that
holds NTLOADER/NTDETECT/BOOT.INI. This would point to a clean XP setup on
my D: SATA drive. Or, I just give up and have a single SATA drive until I
can afford another SATA drive (and throw away the IDE drives)....
Any advice would be appreciated.
Motherboard is an older MSI K7T-Turbo-R KT133A. I installed XP-Pro (sp2
slipstream) on the drive- single partition, disk 0. I made the mistake of
spending 20+ hours loading all of my applications and settings on this new
drive.
Now: since I have some older 7200rpm IDE drives, I would like to add them
to store files/backups. But, when i hook them up, the BIOS makes the IDE
drive letter "C:" and the newer drive "D:". It tries to boot to the older
IDE drive, now.
Question: can I do use these older drives without reloading XP and starting
over? I assume I need an NTFS boot partition on my IDE drive (c that
holds NTLOADER/NTDETECT/BOOT.INI. This would point to a clean XP setup on
my D: SATA drive. Or, I just give up and have a single SATA drive until I
can afford another SATA drive (and throw away the IDE drives)....
Any advice would be appreciated.