Hi Richard. My pc when bought new had one hard drive. This was C. I added another and this one is called D. Now, C failed and will not work. A disk-scan reports the disk as damaged. So, I loaded winXP onto my D drive. The C drive is still plugged in as the primary and the D is the slave. Confused, yea, me too. It gets better though. At the moment I have everything on D and all is well. What I am thinking now is doing what you suggest above except I do not understand what an "optical" drive is/looks like. But I think I have a rough idea based on what you say so I might have a go at it later on. The D drive is a Seagate and the 'new' one is a Quantum fireball.
I want this 'new' disk as it is 20mb and I am taking a lot of pictures (with my ixus400) and want to store the pics on it. ( I back the good ones up on CD every week, the rest I have on my HD). I recently bought a 256mb card for the camera and the pictures are huge on 'large' setting. I just basically want it to store all my pictures and videos on it.
Thanks for your patience Richard.
