jay80424

Hello everyone,

Thanks in advance for the advice and patience.

I have a PII (I know, it's old, but it works fine). Running XP

I have 2 10 Gig drives, and they're both full. So I bought a 120 Gig drive, and was told I need a PCI IDE controller card so the motherboard could see all 120 gigs. (or else it would have to be partitioned in 30 gig sections??)

So heres what I have:
PII, running XP, 3.5" Floppy, CD burner, and a Zip drive. 256 Megs. one PCI slot open. Working fine.

Maxtor 120 GIG Ultra 133, and a Ultra ATA IDE PCI controller card. In a box.

Here's what I want to do:

Install the new 120 gig drive as the master, and use one of the 10 gig's as the slave.

I tried to install the PCI card, and then get the 120 gig drive to work, but I have a feeling I'm not 100% sure wht to do. I think I need to have the computer boot off the BIOS on the PCI card, but it's a little scary in there.

First steps? Thanks.