Okily...

ATm I got, external 160 (backup), internal 1x samsung 80 (win Install) and a maxtor 60 (storage)

My rig (as shown in sig) is a A7N8X2.0, REV 2.xx etc

What I plan on doing is getting a Western Digital Raptor 74GB, for the speed and efficency.

Now, I got all my windows back up through Norton Ghost...

my 2 questions...

Can I get that Raptor in and do a drive copy through Norton of my Windows Install?

Also, I ve made my XP install have SP2 install with it...So as far as i am aware, I wont need SATA Drivers as i Will be installin with SP2...

Am I correct in that? I just wanna be sure before I do anything

As for the question about Ghost - I think that WD should provide you with tools that will transfer the existing data onto your new drive. Have a look around their website. If they don't have it, then you should be able to Ghost an image of your previous drive onto the new Raptor.

AFAIK, unless you need special SATA drivers, you should be alright. If anything goes wrong, you can always pop the old drive in there and start again from scratch.

i say not to go for wd 74gb. speed improvement exist but not too much. and u will have a very noisy and hot hard drive.

Arr, interesting, hadn't looked at it that way before....good point though!

Maybe I'll go for a new Main Drive, a SATA one of a large capacity at the same price for a Raptor

Thnks for the input

I've heard the Maxtor Diamondmax drives do very well performance wise. You might want to have a look at them.