i will... thanks... first im tryin to see whats on the drive with the pc it came out of, so i can tell if theres anythgin on there i need to back up.... how should i set everything up between the two hd's a.)120 and b.) 250 as far as running the os and software and file storage with partitions and shit? right now my 120 is split into 105 and 15... then smaller holding all the recovery data... and why do you think my pc freaked out when i put the 40gb hd in there?