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GA-8ihxp ADDING AN EXTRA HARD DRIVE
Hi,
I am using a Gigabyte GA-8IHXP motherboard. I am using Windows XP SP 1. In preparation for upgrading Windows to SP2 I want to fit a new hard drive to act as a new back up system. (At present I have it all on zips/floppies and Discs). It is my intention to ghost (using Norton Ghost) my System and all data to the new drive - putting in relevant partitions where necessary. My Motherboard supports four IDE channels. Channels one and two are UDMA ATA 100/66 Bus Master IDE ports. Channels three and four are UDMA ATA 133/100/66 Bus Master IDE ports At present I have: Channel One - CD ROM 52x with a ZIP 250 Drive on the additional connection Channel Two - CD Read and writer 40/20/48 with nothing on additional connection Channels Three and Four have two Seagate Barracuda 20 gig hard drives, one on each channel. These are set in Raid 1.0 stripe formation, which is my Boot drive (they act as one drive). Nothing on the extra connections I am thinking of putting a Seagate Barracuda 40 gb 7200.7 UDMA100 or a Seagate Barracuda 80 gb 7200.7 UDMA100 in as my backup drive. 1. Can I place this on Channel two with the CD R/w disc. (There is a note in the Gigabyte Motherboard quick installation guide that says "please connect first hard drive to IDE One and connect CD-ROM to IDE 2". However I think this refers to the Boot Drive being on IDE One and I am using IDE three and Four as the Boot drive with the RAID configuration.) 2. If I can put it on IDE channel Two should I set it as master and the CD R/W as slave, I have vague recollections about CD speed being affected by Hard drives etc.. 3. If I ghost my SYSTEM to the backup drive I assume I should be able to set my BIOS to start from that drive - if so what affect if any would the fact that it came from a RAID 1.0 Stripe configuration have on this, if any. Many thanks for your help. David M |
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