UPDATED: Can I have two 120gig hard drives in my new comp

[salesbury steak]

I'm getting a new computer. I bought two Western Digital Special Edition Hard Drives (7200 RPM - WD1200JBRTL). I'm a storage freak, so I bought two. I actually bought them for $150 each!!! That's a sweet deal if I must say. Will it cause any problems with my operating system? I'm getting a 2.4 GHZ P4 Northwood Intel processor, a top of the line Asus motherboard, and at 1 Gig of memory. Any insights would be appreciated.

Here's the SPECS:

Processor: Intel Pentium 4 / 2.4BGHz Northwood 512K Socket 478 Processor 533MHz Processor Bus

Motherboard: Asus P4T533-C Motherboard for Intel Processors

Video Card: VISIONTEK Xtasy GeForce4 Ti4600 (GeForce4 Ti 4600 Graphics Chipset). 128MB DDR. 4X, AGP. 300MHz GPU. TV In/Out. DVI.

Sound Card: Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum

Memory: KINGSTON KVR1066X18-8/256 RAMBUS 256MB 1066MHZ ECC
x 4 = 1 gig

Hard Drives: WD WESTERN DIGITAL "SPECIAL EDITION" 120GB 7200RPM EIDE HARD DRIVE MODEL # WD1200JB x 2 = 240 gigs

Case: Cooler Master ATC-201-SX. 10-Bay. All Aluminum Case

Power Supply: Antec 550W Power Supply For TRUE550

CD-RW Drive: TDK 40x 12x 48x

DVD Drive: TOSHIBA INTERNAL DVD ROM, 16X DVD, 48X CD ROM

Diskette Drive: SONY 1.44MB 3.5 INCH INTERNAL FDD DRIVE

Zip Drive: Iomega Internal EIDE 250MB Zip Drive

Cooling Supply: DigitalDoc5

Keyboard: MICROSOFT OFFICE KEYBOARD USB & PS/2 VER. 1.0A

Mouse: Microsoft Intelli-Mouse Explorer Version 3.0a

Speakers: Klipsch Promedia 4.1 THX Certified 5 piece Personal Audio System

Will run on Windows 2000 second edition.

[Anonymous]

I need for information in order to help. What Operating system are you using. If you are gonna use Windows ME and below you will need to partition the harddrive in sections of 32GB or less in order to use it. If you use Windows 2000 and up. You can have a partition size of 120GB so you won't have to have so many drive letters. Also, are you sure that your motherboard supports sticks of 1GB? They may say something like max 1.5GB w/3 slots and that means that the maximum is 3 sticks of 512MB. Anything else?

[adomin1000]

Also, what is the model # for the motherboard you are using, in case you are not sure of the memory issue.

[Anonymous]

512 mb of memory is all you need. Above that it is a waste.

[Penguin]

Definately only use 512 mb of memory.

[Penguin]

Can you post your system specs so we can better help you.

Kind of like what I have listed in my signature.

The only way we can help people is to fully understand what your system is and how it is configured before we can help. Without this info we can only guess and sometimes that is impossible.

[salesbury steak]

Processor: Intel Pentium 4 / 2.4BGHz Northwood 512K Socket 478 Processor 533MHz Processor Bus

Motherboard: Asus P4T533-C Motherboard for Intel Processors

Video Card: VISIONTEK Xtasy GeForce4 Ti4600 (GeForce4 Ti 4600 Graphics Chipset). 128MB DDR. 4X, AGP. 300MHz GPU. TV In/Out. DVI.

Sound Card: Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum

Memory: KINGSTON KVR1066X18-8/256 RAMBUS 256MB 1066MHZ ECC
x 4 = 1 gig

Hard Drives: WD WESTERN DIGITAL "SPECIAL EDITION" 120GB 7200RPM EIDE HARD DRIVE MODEL # WD1200JB x 2 = 240 gigs

Case: Cooler Master ATC-201-SX. 10-Bay. All Aluminum Case

Power Supply: Antec 550W Power Supply For TRUE550

CD-RW Drive: TDK 40x 12x 48x

DVD Drive: TOSHIBA INTERNAL DVD ROM, 16X DVD, 48X CD ROM

Diskette Drive: SONY 1.44MB 3.5 INCH INTERNAL FDD DRIVE

Zip Drive: Iomega Internal EIDE 250MB Zip Drive

Cooling Supply: DigitalDoc5

Keyboard: MICROSOFT OFFICE KEYBOARD USB & PS/2 VER. 1.0A

Mouse: Microsoft Intelli-Mouse Explorer Version 3.0a

Speakers: Klipsch Promedia 4.1 THX Certified 5 piece Personal Audio System

Will run on Windows 2000 second edition.

[Anonymous]

i bow to your computer.