> >>There will be two cables hooked up to it: one will be a gray, flat, ribbony cable that runs to the motherboard. This is your IDE cable (I'm going to assume you have IDE drives and not SCSI, since you almost certainly do), and it is used to The other will be a smaller set of a couple multi-colored wires that will run to the power supply. It's very easy to tell these apart.
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> I think something disappeared in your first post. Maybe a line got cut out? Whatever. Just if it was the big secret that will screw me up if I don't know it, please please please warn me before I start taking screwdrivers to my computer!
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> ".....and it is used to The other...." Used to what?
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> -Ka"I guess that's why I made sure I had 6-8 days extra :-)"z!

Teach me not to proof my own posts. Anyway, nothing important other than the IDE cable is what is used to transfer information from the drive to the controller on the motherboard (which allows data to be accessed by the rest of the computer). Basically just "extra" info :P

Stephen