I have learnt a few things here so thankyou all for your help and i have one question to ask. How can i install a third hard drive with only 1 IDE cable for my 2 current partitioned hard drives C:+E:(master) D:+F:(slave)? Just got a 250GB hard drive and would love to keep my current drives and add this one to the computer as well.

Smile, your dead a long time :)