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Hello everyone im haveing a wierd problem. I just upgraded my system and i am haveing problems with the new hard drive. I recently purchased a 2.4 AMD athalon Dual core, Kingston Hyperx 2 GB ddr 400 (pc 3200), ATI Radeon x800gt (Old card), SATA Seagate 320gb and a new 600 watt power supply. Anyway when installed everything it started up great but when i went to install windows i kept getting an error to install windows xp pro disk about 75 percent through the installation. I got an error saying something about the format of the HD. Then i tried installing windows xp 64 bit addition and half way through that i was getting a black screen and it would just freeze up there. I havent tried since then im kinda just using it as a slave drive for now. I never seen this problem before and i dont know to much about the sata hd's so any input would be awesome. And another question just out of curiosity i would appreciate some input on the sata's and if its even worth it for me to mess with it. Will it even make a noticeable difference. Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, JC