Cricket, thanks for the reply. I was installing win 2000. For whatever reason I couldn't get the drive to work. Somehow, I managed to get boot from the cd rom by continually rebooting. Once the software was installed I was able to reformat the diskettes and make a boot copy of 2000. I really don't know why both drives were acting the way they were. Now I need to go back repartition the hd, since my old system only recognized 32gig of the 60gig and then install all the drivers for the mb video card extra. Any suggestions for a quick and easy solution accepted.
Again thanks,
osqui