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MovedGoalPosts · 10-07-2005, 03:37

but if drivers are an issue, surely they would remains so, and a bigger one, if you put the SATA into a caddy to cart around with you?

You may not game much but things like Flight Sim 2004 will probably show a difference between the SATA and an IDE drive. As the SATA wil have noticeably faster access times than IDE, I'd keep it as your primary windows HD.

As I said before I expect you only need to load specific SATA drivers if you are using a RAID card configuration. If you were doing that you'd have at least two SATA drives, which you do not. I would expect a win XP reinstall from the Mesh CD you have to take you through allthe steps needed without need for floppy drives, or other driver installs prior to windows installing. Of course once windows is runing, you will need to install current patches, antivurus, etc. and at that point some updated drivers may be desired. Indeed if you go to the Mesh webiste, they may well offer updated drivers for you to download now, before you start, which you could burn to CD.

10-07-2005, 03:37	#16
MovedGoalPosts Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: 127.0.0.1 Age: 62 Posts: 15,868	Re: Hard drive setup but if drivers are an issue, surely they would remains so, and a bigger one, if you put the SATA into a caddy to cart around with you? You may not game much but things like Flight Sim 2004 will probably show a difference between the SATA and an IDE drive. As the SATA wil have noticeably faster access times than IDE, I'd keep it as your primary windows HD. As I said before I expect you only need to load specific SATA drivers if you are using a RAID card configuration. If you were doing that you'd have at least two SATA drives, which you do not. I would expect a win XP reinstall from the Mesh CD you have to take you through allthe steps needed without need for floppy drives, or other driver installs prior to windows installing. Of course once windows is runing, you will need to install current patches, antivurus, etc. and at that point some updated drivers may be desired. Indeed if you go to the Mesh webiste, they may well offer updated drivers for you to download now, before you start, which you could burn to CD.