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Subject:
New HD and PCI Adapter Card
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Steven L Gillespie <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 15 Jan 2001 04:56:43 -0500
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I am installing a new Maxtor 40GB HD and Promise ATA/100 PCI Adapter card in my ASUS P5A MB with an AMD k6 II 550 and 128mb of SDRAM.  Two questions:

This motherboard only supports ATA33 with the onboard controller.  I would like to leave the old 2GB HD installed on the MB controller (for back up) and move the OS (Windoews ME) to the new faster HD.  I also have an internal Zip 100 and DVD drive on this controller.

Is it possible to install the card and HD and designate the new hard drive as the C (boot) drive while still maintaining the current configuration?  How is this done?

I would like to set up a partition for a fixed swap file on the faster HD.  How is this done?

Thanks in advance,
Steven

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