> Footnotes:
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> - The jumper configuration for primary-master, prmiary-slave, secondary-master, and secondary-slave should be in the drive manuals. I'd also be willing to bet the hard drive you boot off (the one with Windows) will be primary-master, and the other one primary-slave.

Ah, yes, that's true, except having owned pre-built computers in the past I can vouch for the fact that they rarely feel the need to include this information. You don't get manuals for anything other than what those mysterious holes with pins in them at the back of the case are for. If you don't have manuals, I suggest figuring out who made your HD (it's not going to be Dell or Packard Bell) and check out their website / give them a call. A friend of mine yanked his drive out of a PB and was pleasantly suprised to find no jumpers or labels. Fortunately the company was willing to help him out, and he currently has it running as a slave.

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> - As was stated, the pink line on the ribbon cable tells you which end pin 1 is on. Which end you plug pin 1 in on the drive SHOULD be labeled on the circuit board: most will have a 1 on one end of the connector and a 32 (or whatever number the pin at the other end is) on the other side. This would be more reliable than the "closest to the power supply" principle.

Heh, yeah. I'm just usually too lazy to bother looking at small print (because I'm stupid that way).

Stephen