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  3. January 2007

Re: Moving a hard drive w/ a Gateway-installed OEM WindowsXPto a new mobo

Assuming you're using the old ATA/EIDE drive interface and not SATA, the
new mobo probably supports ATA133 and has an 80-pin HD IDE cable.
Looks, smells, sounds, feels, and tastes like the ancient 40-pin cables
but you definitely want to use it for the HD.  Optical drives don't
matter so much and can use the old 40 pin cables.  And since this sounds
like a box with a single HD, put the HD & optical drives on different
IDE channels.  Marginally better performance and better stability.

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