Preparing my Hard Drives?

[DJ Specs]

I was thinking of installing WinXP.
I have 2 hard drives in my system now.
I will reformat both prior to the fresh install.
What I want to know is....what is the best way to set up my hard drives?

Should I put them both on the primary channel, or one on the primary, and one on the secondary? Or does it matter? I also have a cdrom and cd burner.
My hardrives and cdrom are all DMA enabled, BUT the Burner IS NOT, and CANNOT!

Does it affect the order windows will assign them after its setup?

Some real good advice please..thanx.

[DANIMAL]

I don`t think it really matters I have XP and (8 on seperate drives.

Primary ide is 98 and CDROM
secondary ide is xp and Extra HD.

at boot up it asks what oés I would like and away I go.

when I installed Xp I just booted win 98 and formated a hard drive through windows and then inserted the XP cd and installed it on the empty drive. everything has been fine.

[DJ Specs]

Still doesnt really answere my question...sorry.
Anymore opinions?

[AlienDyne]

I would install them on different IDE channels.
The first one on the Primary IDE channel and the second one on the Secondary IDE channel.

[Archer]

It depends on the speeds of your hard drives really,at the present most CDs tend to run at a slower speed than harddrives,up to 33Mb/s so having on the same IDE as the harddrive will slow it access/read times down if it is a fairly fast drive i.e UDMA 66 or 100 [66-100Mb/s].Some modern boards are designed with the main IDE0 as a faster port for the drives and IDE1 for CD/DVD etc.
Personnally if the drives are the same speed I`d but them on the same cable and the CDs on the other,but you may hit problems with copying CD to CDRW this way and have to copy to drive first.
I`m sure some of the more knowlegable techs here will give you more insite but heres my four farthings worth