Setting up SATA hard drives with AMD64 CPU on MSI K8T motherboard

[Jeep]

Looking for a lot of help! Have just set up an AMD64 CPU on MSI K8T Neo board and want to install two SATA WD 40GB Raptor 10K rpm hard drives using a Promise FastTrak 378 controller. Present WD 40GB hard drive is working well in the IDE connector on the motherboard, but only at 2 GHz. Would like to install the two SATA drives and transfer data on the present hard drive to a SATA drive. First, I would attach the SATA drives to the SATA connectors on the motherboard, then set up the BIOS to "As S-ATA" using the Promise FastTrak 378 controller. I use the Acronis backup program and would like to restore a current backup to the SATA drives. Can I restore an IDE conventional backup to a SATA drive? If that will work I would then install the cache settings using the Promise Serial-ATA Utility. If anybody has been through this, I would appreciate hearing from you. Many thanks.

 

[Halflin]

I have the same mb and cpu but I can't get win2000 to install to a single Maxtor 120gb SATA drive. I've followed the install instructions exactly and the performance is horrible then it locks up just before going to get Network Wizard.

Any suggestions?
Thanks!

 

[Jeep]

Do you also have a second Maxtor HDD installed? This SATA business is all new to me but as I understand things at this point you would need two drives for a Serial-ATA setup. Did you reinstall WIN 2000 to this drive and all your programs as well? One of my questions goes to whether I can restore (from the Acronis backup program)everything on my C: drive to a SATA drive or whether I am going to have to reload everything on the SATA drive. Again, as I understand, the SATA drives would be considered as one and automatically mirror to the other.