Hi guys I am having a heck of a time with this my desktop i use for everything recently died the cpu or motherboard is bad im not sure which. Anyhow i went and dug out my old emachine and stuck the mobo into the case this one was in. I hooked everything up the way i had it on my athlon with the 80gb as the primary and the 300gb as my secondary went to reinstall windows and at the point that xp restarts your system the first time it would get to the place where it asks if you want to boot from the cd and it nevers goes into the windows installation screen from there. I took the 300gb off the cable and restarted and it and it installed windows like usual. so my next step was to restart with the 300gb hooked back to it and it went to a blinking cursor in the top left of the screen but never showed me the windows xp loading screen. I then took it back off and tried to reboot with just the 80gb and it gave me operating system not found. I tried going into fixboot and fixmbr and those didnt help me. so i reinstalled windows again it worked fine and then i put in my siig ata card and thought maybe it would work if i put my 300gb on the siig card instead of on the board. well thats when i got the black cursor again and windows wouldnt load. I took the 300gb off the ata card and tried to reboot with the 80gb like normal and wouldnt ya know it i got the operating system not found error once again i just got done reloading windows again and now im looking for some help before i attempt to make this work again because these windows installs are getting old at 30-40 mins a pop. Please tell me someone can help me with this or knows what could be the problem. I am about ready to say screw it and throw this in the trash.