Your post indicates a 160 GB HDD - is this a SATA, ATA, or IDE drive ?
In order to insure data integrity, the disk drive cache must be disabled or writes will be lost causing the database to become corrupt.
Please read "Description of using disk drive caches with SQL Server that every database administrator should know" at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/234656
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