Hi,

If i were to use a sata to pata cable and connect the raptor 10k rpm harddrive would that actually work? and would the nice speed boost help?? Any insight on this would be helpful, thx.

I doubt they would make SATA to PATA adapters if they didn't work.

As for the "nice speed boost" proving to be helpful - your mileage may vary. What are you trying to improve?

Well, i guess i didnt write that very well, uh, i should have asked-are there cables that convert sata to pata? and, for improvements, looking for faster loading times all around, esp in games.

Hm. I think there actually aren't any adapters that would let you plug a SATA drive into a PATA controller. You'd have to buy a separate SATA scontroller for your new drive. Then again, if you are buying controllers you might as well go for a SCSI controller and HD.

The performance increase you would get from a new drive depends on how old/slow your current drive is and what exactly are you doing with it.

You can get a much bigger performance boost by making better use of your old drive. Do a proper cleanup on the drive and defragment it completely (using a proper deragmenter not the silly Windows builtin). Perhaps repartition the drive.

alright, ill do those and see if im happy, which defrager would you recomend i use?

Anything that supports NTFS?

I haven't really used anything but Speed Disk that comes with Norton SystemWorks/Utilities.

A good idea is to disable the pagefile and set the defragmenter to run before Windows starts. Then reboot.