Older motherboard/SATA

Either would work. It really boils down to whether you want more speed or storage space. For speed go with the raptor otherwise take the seagate.
 
WD also offers a 160gb model for the higher price if you are looking for the speed seen on the Raptor line. Will a new drive be a replacement or additional drive for storage?

One 2003 review on the Abit model you named shows specifications for it at http://www.devhardware.com/c/a/Motherboards/ABIT-NF7-S-V2-0/ You won't see any real peformance gain either way with the older board there like you would likely se on the newer build shown in your sig with a Raptor model drive. For a second storage you would see any gain there instead for faster read access time.
 
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This drive is gonna run windows. Gonna go with that Seagate one. Thanks fellas

Do they sell the floppy disc to set up a SATA drive?
 
partition table dotor

there is a versatile software named Partition Table Dotor ,it can check,recover,and repair the master boot record ,paritition table, boot directery .it surpport windows all file systerm: fat16,fat32,ntfs,ntfs5 etc.
you can download online, availble from //www.ptdd.com
 
If you need to create a driver floppy that will be for XP not Vista. The software cd for the board or the support site will have the set of drivers for the onboard sata controllers. You can use the free Linux drive tool GParted the live for cd version or the Windows installer for creating the primary partition on it.

When first booting with the Windows disk(XP) you press the F6 key to browse to the driver disk you have in the drive if needed. The installer will then copy and load those. Even you use GParted the installer may requite those in order to detect the drive which will be most likely seen on the older model there. Once detected you follow the onscreen information like you would with an ide drive from there.
 
Do you have the software cd that came with the board? That will have the drivers there if they are required. If you have that read over the options seen when the menu comes up with the disk in the drive. There's usually an option for creating a driver floppy found there. You may be better off booting from it to if it will load the menu of options that way.
 
The first download is the one you want.

edit: it doesn't really tell you how to make it, so this is what you have to do:

extract the files (run the exe you just downloaded)
navigate to here: ...\abitsata_v1.33\silicon\3112 (the ... is where ever the exe was when you ran it, or desktop if you ran from the location instead of saving)
copy the contents to a floppy
when the XP installation asks for additional drivers press F6
Press 's' when it asks if you want to specify an additional device
put the floppy in the drive
press enter and pick Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller
 
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Hopefully a simple extraction to floppy will work there. On the last build here you first booted up with the board's cd in order to use the formar floppy option and booted into Windows to use the create disk option there. If you formatted the floppy while in Windows or used the create disk option when booting from the cd the error message would come about one of the drivers.

The XP installer was unable to copy and load it fully. That was one odd one there and hopefully you won't run into this type of problem. On the new build now used no driver floppy was needed for XP. Vista now comes with it's own generic drivers and readily sees a sata drive on just about any system by it's self.
 
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