insanity99

Hi Manic,

no its a 40pin cable, i have a dvd drive connected via a 80pin and so the two cables are clearly different and correctly plugged in. Have double checked jumpers also.

Funnily enough however, explorer crashes when I open a particular folder with many subfolders in...so I split up the folder so that the files were spread and not all in one folder. this problem did not exist before installing the 250gb drive and did not occur when discconecting the drive to re-check everything. It seems fine now though Im a little concerned whats going to happen as my collection of files grows...

Also interestingly, my bios recognises the drive as 135gb and xp recognises it as 250gb!! I havent got more than 60gb data on the drive yet so will wait to see if anything happens as I approach 135gb! needless to say I am backing everything up!

Thanks for your help Manic...you and I being Insanity should get on just fine! lol

Insanity99