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[tr4il]

Hi. I finally have all my parts for the new build. More specifically i have a question with jumper settings on my 2 drives. I would like 1 primary which is the DVD ROM drive and i have another Plextor cd/dvd burner secondary.   More specifically i have 2 80GB HDDs for my new pc. One of the 80s is in my pc now and contains the OS, etc etc. I would like to save this drive and use it in my new pc just to house the Windows page file, instead of just not using it. Do i have to reformatt it before i put it in as a secondary drive in my new pc? Or can i just put it in with a specific jumper setting, secondary to the new 80, and reformat/partition it through new windows installation on the new drive.

throwingks:  "As I said, the Maximum usable by WinXP 32-bit is 4GB. So, your page file partition only needs to be a few GBs. Just make your D: 100% of your drive space minus 5GBs and then make E: 5GBs. Point your page file to E: ; C: should be 100%"


EDIT: My Creative sound card says after installing i have to disable on-board sound from mobo. How is that done exactly?

[throwingks]

Without knowing what Mobo you have, it probably has 2 IDE connections.
IDE0 and IDE1
C: = IDE0 Master = New drive
D: = IDE0 Slave = Old Drive/Pagefile Drive
E: = IDE1 Master = DVD+-R(W)
F: = IDE1 Slave = DVD-ROM
That is how I would set it up. Jumper the C: and E: as Master on the drive, and jumper the D: and F: as slave on the drive. You don't need to reformat anything. Once windows is installed on the new drive, point the pagefile to the old drive (D:).

To disable the sound card, it is usually in the BIOS somehwhere. If it is not, then it might be a jumper on the Mobo. Read the manual that came with your motherboard to make sure.

[tr4il]

before i point the windows page file to the slave drive, can i reformat the whole thing first?

[throwingks]

If you are going to format it, then yes. Format it before creating the pagefile. You do not have to partition it if you don't want to.