Computer drives question

[Easy Mac]

Just a question. The DVD writer I ordered should come in the mail on Tuesday. I only have so many slots left on my IDE cable, so my question is, should I get rid of my DVD drive or my CD-RW drive? I'm leaning towards getting rid of the CD-RW, since the DVD-r can record cd's. I'd probably just use the DVD drive to watch my DVD's, since I don't want to overwork the burner.

Your thoughts?

Oh, and will XP get pissed at me if I install a new drive, hard drive, memory and a graphics card (and floppy drive) in one sitting?

[finkenst]

Originally Posted by Easy Mac

Just a question. The DVD writer I ordered should come in the mail on Tuesday. I only have so many slots left on my IDE cable, so my question is, should I get rid of my DVD drive or my CD-RW drive? I'm leaning towards getting rid of the CD-RW, since the DVD-r can record cd's. I'd probably just use the DVD drive to watch my DVD's, since I don't want to overwork the burner.

Your thoughts?

Oh, and will XP get pissed at me if I install a new drive, hard drive, memory and a graphics card (and floppy drive) in one sitting?

i'd do the graphics card by itself.

memory/ram shouldn't matter one iota.

remove the cdrw

hard drive shouldn't really affect anything either, but i'm not sure how xp would view an unformatted drive.

[gstelmack]

XP treats an unformatted drive as dead weight just sitting there until you go into the disk manager and do something with it. Do them all at once, most of XP's work will be for the graphics card, the rest will just kind of sit there.

Get rid of the CD-RW, it's just a waste with the DVD burner going in.

[MizzouRah]

In agreement with gstelmack on both accounts.


Todd