Recent content by prof-ret

Okay, here is what happened. When you removed the sata disk and connected the 500g or ide disk your machine saw only a dvd and one hard drive which it made drive c thus allowing you to install xp. When you disconnected the ide drive and then connected the sata drive again your machine saw only...

LC I missed a few things in the other post (had one too many adult beverages). First, if your system worked with the 500 gb drive connected to the cd/dvd drive and you haven’t changed anything (like the ribbon connection or the jumpers on the back of the disks) your hardware is set correctly and...

It sounds like you have no problem or fear of installing operating systems so I would recomment this: a. because it is not a good plan to have a 32bit system and a 64 bit system on a single machine using the Microsoft boot manager I would say download the vista 64 bit operating system from...