Setting up a new computer

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I am building a new computer with a sata 80 gig hd and a ide 40 gig hd. Could someone give me advice as to which should be the os and which should be storage? I have been told both by friends and now I am not sure which would be wiser. Thank you in advance for any info.
 
I would recommend installing Windows XP Professional on your
primary SATA drive. You do not need an operating system installed
on your storage drive.....just format it NTFS using Disk Management
after Windows XP Pro is installed.

How to Partition and Format a Hard Disk in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;313348&Product=winxp

How to use Disk Management to configure basic disks in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;309000&Product=winxp

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|I am building a new computer with a sata 80 gig hd and a ide 40 gig hd. Could someone give me advice as to
which should be the os and which should be storage? I have been told both by friends and now I am not sure
which would be wiser. Thank you in advance for any info.
 
Thanks again for the information, one more question. I have xp home, what are the differences between home and pro ? I looked at Microsofts website but could not find the differences. Does pro work better ? If pro is better I will look into purchasing that for the new computer.
 
learning said:
Thanks again for the information, one more question. I have xp home,
what are the differences between home and pro ? I looked at
Microsofts website but could not find the differences. Does pro
work better ? If pro is better I will look into purchasing that for
the new computer.
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Why are you even contemplating an IDE drive?! It will be a severe bottleneck
and seriously degrade performance. I have just built myself a new system and
I have three drives (2x75GB (15K) and 1x300GB (7.5K) all three are SATA) I
put my old 200GB IDE in to copy some data across and the system slowed
noticeably. When I took it out, the difference was marked. If you want
another IDE, I'd get another SATA.

You obviously didn't search very well. It took me all of ten seconds to find
the information
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.mspx.
 
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