Clean install IDE3 enhanced controller with a wd800jb drive

Well first of all im pretty new at this building pc stuff have done a few older ones and my first step into a first class system......last year i bought my 875p neo fis2r.....and built it up just fine.....my western digital hd failed a month ago been runing a back up and got my new warranty drive and looking at everything i notice and read ..(a little more this time) about hard drive installation and options and and notice i have a IDE3 connector that supports what i see as faster data transfer rates ........so i have my new drive a wd800jb...and would like to use this option if i can ..........is there any special iinstallation process for a clean install and if so i dont find it.....i believe i am sounding rather noobish but i dont want to do it wrong 10 times before i get it right if this will work ........been reading some other posts about turbo mode ultra turbo and i have not had those problems using bios version 1.9 ....i saw the 2.0 but didnt see any benefit for myself
thanks
weez

There is no speed advantage to IDE3. It is a marketing gimmick. Save yourself a lot of headaches and put the drive back where it was.
If you really want to give IDE3 a try, you need to enable the Promise controller for SATA in the bios, go into Windows and install the Promise SATA drivers, and then you will be ready to use IDE3.

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