Well, honestly I don't see any BIOS setting for assigning letter drive or doing partition . The max BIOS can do only set your 1st, 2nd, 3rd and so... HDD in sequence .

If nothing can be done, might as well I just leave it and deal with the Disk Management everytime ba .

XP Pro SP2 .

well.. i neva had dis prob..i just set the size of each partition during installation and arranged the letters after login into windows..after that each time i boot no changes made to the letters that i assigned...

Ah well... I think you have mistaken me. Yeah, I doesn't have the drive letter problem after the assignation by Disk Management in Windows. What I mean is the HDD itself. I bootup my rig using Windows XP BootCD and then enter the Partition Manager, the place where you can create and delete partitions on your HDD(s) before you selecting one to be installed with Windows. The partitions there still labelled as:

C:
E:
F:
G:
H:

i think it's usual kot dis thing happen

Haha... then I wonder how come last time I could set my Samsung HDD as C:, D:, E: as default

maybe tis time u use raid gua, so different loh.

Tarak setup RAID la

How's the performance for the Seagate SV35 series compare to Barracuda series?

For SATA2 3Gb/s HDD... what DMA mode I should run for maximum performance? Currently I'm on Ultra DMA Mode-5 on my SATA2 port .

Is 7200.11 500GB here? thanks

Ya, I just bought the Seagate 500GB 7200.11 32MB SATAII HDD .

BTW, no one can help me regarding the Ultra DMA Mode setting?

already is the top limit mar, udma-5

But in HDTune its indicating my Seagate can go as far as UDMA-6 and my Samsung UDMA-7 summore

but i think only vista can go tat far ler, u try wit vista yet liao?

yoyoyo, how much? and where? thanks

SATA is using Ultra DMA setting? or it is nothing related??? thanks

yes yes... if i am not mistaken then sequence setting in the bios determine your drive letter...
but as usual, C and D(if you for extra DVD drive) for the optical drive.

don't think it is true that BIOS sequence decide the drive letter

Anybody know which shop in LYP carry Hitachi P7K500 series harddisk?

I think it doesn't matter if the D appear as optical drive in the Partition Manager of the Window XP bootable CD...lable your partition and you will know which one you want to install the Windows XP Pro SP2 liao....

if you are going to reinstall windows in C, then no problem at all, no need to change anything...just install it...

anyway, I also want to make it many partition when I get another 500GB hdd, but I afraid make it too many partition is not good for the hdd as I read somewhere last time that make more than 3 partition will make it easy corrupted... dunno for large capacity this theory still valid or not...

did you set your bios SATA to AHCI mode?
UDmamode-5 is only 100MB/s