- Hard Drive Hell...

Recently my storage drive crashed on me. My most tech-savvy friend told me that it was likely because I was not running a big enough power supply in my new computer. I know that this person knows what they're talking about, so I ran out and bought a new power supply. Ok, one problem solved. Well, I still needed a new storage drive... so I've been getting the idea that SATA is faster/neater than the old IDE drives, so I bought myself a 100gb SATA drive and came home and installed it as my storage drive. It ran very nicely and sparked the thought that I should buy another one for my primary drive - speed rules, ya know. So I attempted this... remember fighting with Windows 95 or 98 trying to get it to recognize your hardware and trying to get it to play nicely with your drivers? Yeah well, when it comes to SATA drives, Win XP is no better. I updated my BIOS and it recognized the drives just fine... well, BIOS and Windows are two different things. So try as I might, I couldn't get the system to boot to one of these SATA drives. So now I'm running my 60gb IDE hard drive as my Windows drive and I have two 100gb SATA storage drives. I guess this is the way it will be until Longhorn (um.. I mean Vista). Damn Microsoft!