controller card

[bobkupferer]

I have a pc 400 m.b. with 1.6 gig cpu, 384 mgs ddr2100 ram and a 60 gig hd. I have a c/d burner, and a dvd drive.
I would like to add a second h.d. (3.2 gig) to use for a backup system as I have contacted a lot of worms and virus and have to reload xp very often. this is a time consuming project especialy having to reload all updates!
I want to know if I should add a controller card to this system and what type of controller card is compatable with my system.
Thank you very much in advance for your help.
bob k

[snowmonkey]

every standard motherboard can take up to 4 IDE device,, so you can put the new hard drive on the same IDE channel as your original one given the fact one should be set to slave and one as master.



cheers