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- Aug 27, 2003
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- Mississauga, Ontario
I need your help, this is what I want to do:
Just to let you know, I got the 150GB Raptor today as a gift from my parents for my bday. Have no idea how they could possibly know about this specific drive, but somehow they found out even tho they have no computer knowhow. Out of the hundreds of drives out there, they buy the only one that I would even consider, and indeed a computer part I have been secretly wishing for.
Anyhow, right now my main rig has only one drive, with one SATA port open.
Question 1: Does the computer and/or the OS treat SATA in hierarchy? Is one primary and the other secondary or are they both equal? The reason for this will become obvious when I explain what I want to do:
I want to keep my current XP setup intact. I am assuming when I install the Raptor, my current setup will just assign it a letter and thats the end of that. I am fine with that.
However, I want to install a new OS on the Raptor. I haven't decided whether it will be XP64 or Vista, but this is irrelevant! This is the important part. When I install the new OS, I want this setup to of course think the Raptor is my C drive, and treat my 250GB current drive as the secondary storage drive.
Then, of course, I want the option at startup to start either OS.
In short, at startup, I want to be able to choose my current XP32 setup, or my new Vista setup. Then, if I choose XP32, I want my current setup to start, with the new Raptor visible and assigned a non C: letter. If I choose Vista, I want the Raptor to be C: drive, with my current drive as a storage drive D: (arbitrary letter).
Is this possible? How do I go about it?
ps. In fact, I want to install two more, not just one, but its the same thing, so that is why I asked about only one. Ultimately, I am going to partition the Raptor into two 75GB partitions, one for Vista and one for Linux. Of course, I want the option of all three (XP, Vista, Linux) at startup, and I want each to treat the partition they are on as the main C: partition, with the others as storage partitions.
Just to let you know, I got the 150GB Raptor today as a gift from my parents for my bday. Have no idea how they could possibly know about this specific drive, but somehow they found out even tho they have no computer knowhow. Out of the hundreds of drives out there, they buy the only one that I would even consider, and indeed a computer part I have been secretly wishing for.
Anyhow, right now my main rig has only one drive, with one SATA port open.
Question 1: Does the computer and/or the OS treat SATA in hierarchy? Is one primary and the other secondary or are they both equal? The reason for this will become obvious when I explain what I want to do:
I want to keep my current XP setup intact. I am assuming when I install the Raptor, my current setup will just assign it a letter and thats the end of that. I am fine with that.
However, I want to install a new OS on the Raptor. I haven't decided whether it will be XP64 or Vista, but this is irrelevant! This is the important part. When I install the new OS, I want this setup to of course think the Raptor is my C drive, and treat my 250GB current drive as the secondary storage drive.
Then, of course, I want the option at startup to start either OS.
In short, at startup, I want to be able to choose my current XP32 setup, or my new Vista setup. Then, if I choose XP32, I want my current setup to start, with the new Raptor visible and assigned a non C: letter. If I choose Vista, I want the Raptor to be C: drive, with my current drive as a storage drive D: (arbitrary letter).
Is this possible? How do I go about it?
ps. In fact, I want to install two more, not just one, but its the same thing, so that is why I asked about only one. Ultimately, I am going to partition the Raptor into two 75GB partitions, one for Vista and one for Linux. Of course, I want the option of all three (XP, Vista, Linux) at startup, and I want each to treat the partition they are on as the main C: partition, with the others as storage partitions.