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| Thread ID: 27043 | 2002-11-12 03:17:00 | Reconfiguring drives | wintertide (1306) | Press F1 |
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| 97970 | 2002-11-12 03:17:00 | On my computer, I have two drives: a 1GB Western Digital Caviar, which supports a slow IDE interface, an da 2GB Seagate drive, which supports ATA33. I want to put the faster drive as my master, but the 1GB drive is my boot disk, and I want it to keep its assigned drive letter, which is C:. I don't wnat to wipe either drives if I can avoid it. Is it possible to use my 2GB drive as master and gain extra speed out of it, and boot off my slave drive, or do I have to move the contents of the two drives around? I am using an ASUS SP-97V board with its original BIOS flash. Any help is appreciated. |
wintertide (1306) | ||
| 97971 | 2002-11-12 03:26:00 | Making the faster drive the master won't mean you can gain speed from it, and keeping it as slave won't mean that it runs slower. Drives generally run at their own speed, unless both drives are being read/written at the same time, then they tend to slow to the slower speed. The way to gain full advantage of the speed is to install the faster drive as Master (and therefore c: ) and make that your boot drive, then most of the software you run can be run from the faster drive, and in effect speed you up a little. Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 97972 | 2002-11-12 03:28:00 | MS will boot the master drive on the first IDE interface. It will call it C: :_|. If you just want the extra speed on the 2GB drive, get another IDE cable and make it the master on the second IDE interface. If you haven't got two IDE interfaces, you might be SOL. However, you probably won't really see a major difference in speed, except in the output of "performance checking" software. ;-) When you run programmes to use the computer, the slowest device is your brain, and its interface to the keyboard. :D |
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