hard drive issue ???

[fas_159]

im currently running under windows vista 32 bit. i have two hard drives . one ide 80gb which is the boot drive, and one 160gb sata drive which is my secondary games drive.

if i was to clean install my boot drive , will windows recognise my games drive without the need of a reformat i.e removing all my games .

[stinger608]

As long as you just format the 80gig IDE drive, and leave the sata drive as is, install the os on the 80gig, it should be just fine


You may however have to reinstall the games, as there will not be any of the game dll's in the registry after doing a fresh install of the os

[fas_159]

so if i jst keep the game data files- iso on the sata drive that will be fine . ???

[Quakindude]

It would probably be best for you to format the 160Gb drive and use it as your primary OS drive anyway. Typically, the newer/bigger drives will outperform the smaller drives due to platter density. The difference in performance between IDE and SATA is minimal. But the difference between newer storage technology, platter density, is significant. Use HDTach to test the two drives and see which drive is faster. You can always partition the 160Gb drive into two drives. One for C: and the other for games. Then use the 80Gb drive for storage or whatever.

My point being, you want the faster of the two drives to house your OS.