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This may appear to be off-topic at first, but I believe Windows XP
will need to be used in this scenario.
My wife needs more storage space-something like 300gb or more. If
possible, she wants to have a new, larger drive for her C: drive and
to copy her present drive over to it. Sure, taking a backup and
restoring it to a new EIDE drive would be simple enough, but I believe
she'd like the performance of a SATA drive.
Her computer does not support SATA natively, so she'd need a PCI
controller card.
Are they any "gotcha's" in this? Will SATA and EIDE drives work
together in the same machine? How would XP Home be set up to boot
from the new drive?
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This may appear to be off-topic at first, but I believe Windows XP
will need to be used in this scenario.
My wife needs more storage space-something like 300gb or more. If
possible, she wants to have a new, larger drive for her C: drive and
to copy her present drive over to it. Sure, taking a backup and
restoring it to a new EIDE drive would be simple enough, but I believe
she'd like the performance of a SATA drive.
Her computer does not support SATA natively, so she'd need a PCI
controller card.
Are they any "gotcha's" in this? Will SATA and EIDE drives work
together in the same machine? How would XP Home be set up to boot
from the new drive?
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Top 10 Conservative Idiots:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/top10/