ok, since my new ram showed up this morning (system is now up to 768MB), i decided it was time to install the ram and the hard drive. opened up the computer to check where everything was on the ribbons and see where i'm going to plug in the hard drive. the current hard drive and CDRW are on the same ribbon (havn't checked to see which is slave and which is master yet). from the posts others have left about data transferring from one drive to the next and bottlenecking, i figure the best way to set this up is to put the new hard drive as a slave to the floppy drive. well, the connector on the ribbon for the floppy drive isn't the right size for the new hard drive, and the ribbon the CDRW and other hard drive are on only has 2 connections. so i have to go out and buy a new ribbon. figures!
my only other possibility is to use the 3rd IDE connection on the motherboard, BUT, the motherboard wasn't new when i got it. bought it from a friend who assembled the computer for me. he tried to put the floppy, hard drive, and cdrw drive each on their own ribbon, but said the 3rd ribbon port on the motherboard wouldn't work. he couldn't figure out why. i can try to use it, but he took his time putting the computer together and couldn't get it to work no matter what he tried. i'll have to wait 3 more weeks til he gets back from his honeymoon to get into detail with him on everything he tried. i've decided the best way to set everything up is to leave linux where it is on the 20GB drive. the drive was partitioned for me into 5 and 15gb sections. i partitioned out 5gb for mandrake 9.1, there's still 10GB left on that partition. when i put the 100gb drive in, i'm going to leave it all open for sharing between win and linux, and i'm still able to expand to give linux 15GB to run on the other drive, and in the future if for some reason i was doing things exclusively in linux that i needed to keep separate from windows (video editing most likely) i can partition off more spaec on the 100gb drive for that. any comments? guess it's a good thing i started this thread, as there've been multiple questions asked on the same subject. thanks for all the input from everyone so far!
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