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Terrorbyte · 12-13-2001, 05:04 AM

With the different HDD's I do know that the system will run at the speed of the slowest when on the same IDE.
The multiple formats certainly confused me, will have to pass on that one.
So the list is two hard drives and one burner ? if that is correct try your main drive on IDE 0 and run the burner as slave to the second HDD on IDE 1.

Personally I never partition drives in any way, if you can it may be better to start from a clean drive and do a new install, that will generally fix a lot of problems.
Xp seems to behave better when installed from a new/clean drive, there may be other ways to remove the partition but I dont use them so I can't advise that.

what are the disk sizes, and speeds ?

12-13-2001, 05:04 AM	#4
Terrorbyte Banned Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Queensland, Australia Posts: 324	With the different HDD's I do know that the system will run at the speed of the slowest when on the same IDE. The multiple formats certainly confused me, will have to pass on that one. So the list is two hard drives and one burner ? if that is correct try your main drive on IDE 0 and run the burner as slave to the second HDD on IDE 1. Personally I never partition drives in any way, if you can it may be better to start from a clean drive and do a new install, that will generally fix a lot of problems. Xp seems to behave better when installed from a new/clean drive, there may be other ways to remove the partition but I dont use them so I can't advise that. what are the disk sizes, and speeds ?