[jeromebrill]

I have XP on both HDs. It's just one computer. Ive kept the installation on the other drive because I had data I still needed from it. Anyways I'm about to go out and by a SATA300 drive and quit this IDE crap. It's just odd that I can hook it up with my other drive with my old installation of xp and just do a Cable select or master/slave and it loads the OS and it reads the 160GB fine. This seagate just wont work. I didn't try what you said glc. I'm thinking that would work but this is temporary. Well less temporary now if I can get it to work with my 160 but that's ok. I'm better off with a new drive anyways. Thank you guys for your help.