Thank you SD for your prompt reply.
Am I right that you have the 2 on-board IDE controllers (primary and secondary) supporting 4 IDE devices, plus an additional controller card to connect the remaining 2?
You are correct in both questions.
Are the drives formatted with FAT32 or NTFS? Shouldn't be an issue for this, but if you need to put the drive in another system it may make a difference, due to file security.
All HDD's are NTFS.
As for the upgrade, that was simply re-install to re-vitalise the system and the SP2 happened to come with it. The previous OS had too many programmes on it, and was getting stale. Just fancied cleaning things up!
Got your view on the drive and moving data. Thanks again.
Any comment on the link above guys?
CF