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Ok heres the deal. I was building a computer out of spare parts for my sister and I had to order a hard drive. I messed up and ordered a SATA drive which the motherboard cant use. So instead of getting a controller card or whatever I just buy another drive and figure I can use the SATA drive in my computer (my mobo can do SATA).

Right now I have a 300gig IDE drive, which I have no intention of abandoning. However, I would like to format everything and make the SATA drive my primary. Now I have never set up a SATA drive before, and I want to know im not getting my self into some deep ***t right before schools starts ;)

So here are the questions I have

1. How do I set up the SATA as primary (with windows installed on it) and IDE as slave (for storage). Do I need to change jumpers? Bios settings? ect?

2. What is this RAID buisness? Do I need to use it? What will I gain if I do?

3. If I do use RAID, how do I set it up with a SATA and IDE disk?

Thanks in advance!
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