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Sounds like it's trying to boot from first a non-system disk (sorry to state the obvious!), then goes to the bootable drive next when you press a key. Check the boot order in the bios. If that's not it, I'd hazard a guess that the firmware utility may create a partition on your boot drive to...

Yes. It's worth making sure the bios will still boot to your sata drive first on the first boot after you attach the ide drive. If the ide drive's NTFS formatted, you may run into security issues though - they're not insurmountable, but it does add an extra element of fun to proceedings.

Yeah, reinstall needed. The low level software on the drive will be expecting cues from a different set of hardware if you've changed mobo. You can get some enterprise-grade imaging software that'll let you migrate an image across to new hardware, but even that's not without its peccadilloes.

That's a lot of games! For me it'll (eventually - when stock finally comes in for 80GB) be: OS, key apps and a game or 2 on the SSD, backup images of that on a 500GB WD Black, data storage on a pair of WD Black 1TBs in RAID 1, archive on some older WD 320GB in RAID 1... Hmm - probably time for...

Looks like the 160GB's back in stock, no sign of the 80GB again. I suppose it makes sense - much larger margin on the 160GB. You've essentially got to make two controllers, caches and enclosures if you sell 2 80GBs rather than 1 160GB. Still, a bit of a bugger for us customers!

I'm a graphic designer so it'll be win7, adobe suite and whatever project files I'm working on. It'd be nice, I'm sure, to have your games start up a few seconds faster but when you're working on half-gigabyte .psd files, or .indd files with a few hundred links in them the difference between ssd...

Damnable soft launches!

Presumably we have to wait until the supply's outstripping demand sufficiently in the US for Intel to start shipping major batches to Europe. To do so cheaply you still have to use actual ships, which do take a while to get over here... Still, I would like to know when my pre-order's going to...