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Old 10-16-2006, 02:00 PM   #1
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2 CD/DVD Burners and 2 HDD's

Hello everyone, I am working on an older build. MSI K7N2GM-V with an Athlon XP 3200+ and 512MB of ram. The question I have is this: I have two CD/DVD burners and two HDD's that I would like to put in this computer. I think it would be best to put one HDD and one Burner on each IDE channel. Am I right? I am running Windows XP, anything special that I have to do to the second HDD besides format? Thanks for the help.
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Old 10-16-2006, 02:03 PM   #2
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That would be best - just don't burn to the drive on the same channel that the source hard drive is on. Use 80 wire cables and CS jumpering on all drives. Partition and format the second hard drive using XP's Disk Management.
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O.K. I will do that. Thanks for the help
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Old 10-20-2006, 07:42 AM   #4
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Thats interesting, I run 1 SATA 80 GB WD, 1 IDE Seagate 200GB on my Primary IDE Channel as my master and my 2 DVDRW's Master/Slave on my 2ndary IDE, think thats wise or should I pair up a burner with my 200 seagate on the primary channel. Mostly use one burner for games and 1 for backup/ripping.
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Old 10-20-2006, 10:09 AM   #5
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If you don't do direct disk to disk copying from burner to burner, leave them together.
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