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12779	2001-05-18 03:17:00	I have recently purchased a Iwill K266 motherboard, plus a AMD Duron 900Mhz CPU. As well as a Maxtor DiamondMax VL 40gig hard drive. But which to install first? The new hard drive is ATA66/100, the old is 33. Will the new motherboard run this drive? (the old), if so do I use the 80-wire cable or the 40?. Or should I install the new hard drive as master,on the old motherboard, do a fresh OS (Windows 98SE) install, plus re-install my programs etc, with the 40 wire cable, then do the motherboard,CPU install and change the HDD to 80-wire then?	Guest (0)
12780	2001-05-18 10:13:00	when ever you upgrade your motherboard you should do a fresh os install. install your new motherboard,cpu and harddrive(as primary master). the new hardrive requires the 80-wire cable. the old 33 drive will be fine on the new cable and motherboard(set to primary slave). boot with boot disk and install os (and apps) from fresh. any old files can then be trannsfered over. clean out old harddrive and use it as a back up disk. dissconect the old drive when not required as there can be a performance drop when you have 2 different drives on the same ide channel. hope that helps :-))	Guest (0)
12781	2001-05-18 13:21:00	Thanks Tweak'e Would I be better to put the old HD on the second channel as slave with the CD-ROM, or even master on the second channel with the CD-ROM as slave?. Then it should'nt affect the new HD proformance? regards Carl	Guest (0)
12782	2001-05-19 16:12:00	It is not necessary to reinstall the os when fitting a new motherboard. As it does with any other new device you connect to your computer, Windows will detect a different board and install the required drivers (either from it's own built in list or from your motherboard disk. Although it is best to install the drivers using the motherboard installation program. In very rare circumstances your old and new IDE drivers can cause problems if they are both installed at once. To be on the safe side, I would fit, partition and format the new drive (in FAT 32), then ghost the data off the old C drive to the first partition of the new drive (Use the 'partition to partition' option in Ghost). Ghosting will give you a fully functional/bootable 'copy' of your existing setup. If the old drive is FAT 16 and you want the new drive formatted in FAT 32, perform the FAT conversion prior to ghosting. Then change the motherboard, connect the new HDD as primary master (on the 80 wire cable), the old HDD as secondary master and CD-ROM as secondary slave (both on the 40 wire cable). Turn on the computer and install the new board drivers. If things go wrong, you still have the original setup on the old drive and can reinstall the new drive from scratch before copying over data from the old drive. Note: if you copy over programs, they will not be entered into the registry, which will mean setting up shortcuts manually and will make removal difficult as they will not appear in the add/remove programs list. Programs should be reinstalled then any required data files copied back to them.	Guest (0)
12783	2001-05-20 05:03:00	for MAXIMUM performance always reinstall from fresh when you upgrade a motherboard. yes it can be done without any reinstalls (ive done it several times) but you run the risk of windows not setting itself up properly. in one case i changed a motherboard to another brand ie same chipset etc just different manafacture. windows lasted 4 days before it crashed beyond repair. others ive done have been perfect. for the average joe blog it is less risky and you get better performance if you do it from scratch.	Guest (0)
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