On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote: > You need to set a jumper on the hard drive as master (I've also seen some older drives where there was a master with slave option, use that if your drive has such a setting). You also need to set your cd-rom drive's jumper to slave. Hth. > Greg ok, just to add to this, you'll need to check your cmos/bios setings to ensure that your drives are being detected correctly. it's not just a matter of setting the jumpers and hoping for the best. this is where alot of people go wrong. if possible put the cdrom on a seperate ide controler and I personally would set it as secondary master. I will stand to be corrected on this but if that doesn't work, slave it to your hard drive as either a primary slave on the primary ide controler or as a secondary slave on the secondary ide controler. please feel free to correct me anyone as I don't always get things right. -- qShaun Oliver Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Roger Price Email: shauno at goanna.net.au Icq: 76958435