[MJB]

Iâ₠¬ÃƒÆ’¢â€žÂ¢m going to reconfigure my two SATA 80 Gig drives to a RAID 0 (there is only room for two SATA on the Motherboard †“ this one http://uk.shopping.com/xGS-asus_k8vs...kin_id-7000297). Iâ₠¬ÃƒÆ’¢â€žÂ¢ve got the motherboard manual telling me how to do that and it looks achievable! This will give me 160 GB and by reading up online it appears to be recommended to partition this drive and put the OS in a partition of its own (what size would I need??) and maybe another partition for Programme Files as it will decrease the seek time on the principle that its quicker to find data on a 50 GB drive than it is on a 100GB drive?

Anyway, my concern is that my current OS is on a third 80 GB drive (EIDE) and the BIOS is set to look for this drive on boot up AFTER the CD drive. If I boot from the Win XP CD and follow all the instructions to set up the RAID and do a clean install of Win XP, will I be able to alter the BIOS to look for the new drive on boot up, otherwise it will go straight to the old OS wonââ‚Âà ‚¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢t it? Might it make things easier to take out the third drive first and then reinstall and format it after Iâ₠¬ÃƒÆ’¢â€žÂ¢ve got everything else set up and working?

This is the decision Iâ₠¬ÃƒÆ’¢â€žÂ¢m not sure ofââ‚ ¬Ãƒâ€šÃ‚¦ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Ã ¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚¬Ã‚¦..so if anyone can offer any advice it would be well appreciated!