WD hard drive

[cran12]

I have just purchased a WD 160gb drive that came with a pci controller card.
I left my existing 20gb drive with Windows ME on my primary cable as my master and installed the WD on the same cable as the slave.
My secondary cable has my dvd burner as the master and a cd burner as the slave.
My question is should I have used the controller card to install my new drive on wondering if it would benifit the speed/performance of the drive.

[babyboo]

I chose to use the Promise card that came with my WD 160 because I use W98SE (FAT32). The entire 160GB isn't recognized with FAT32 compression. Does Windows ME use FAT32 or NTFS? If NTFS then you are fine as is.

[cran12]

[Does Windows ME use FAT32 or NTFS? If NTFS then you are fine as is.]

ME is FAT32 but my system does recognize the entire drive.

I only ask the question because the drive does not seem so fast contrary to the reviews I have read and was wondering if the card has something to do with it.[/quote]

[snafu099]

The add on card would be benifical for systems with a motherboard ide I/O not up to the capabilities of the new drive.

READ everything that came with/concerning the use of the add on card.
BE SURE to backup all your data before trying to use.

Better safe than sorry.

[au7usa]

Your Add-On-Card should support at least ATA133, i believe that ATA100 and down are limited to 127 Gigabytes.

I don't think WinME has the same partition size limitation that Win98SE has (60Gig), but they're both FAT32.

[rallynavvie]

I don't think it's the drive that's slow, it's probably your OS showing how flaky it is. You should really consider getting XP.