Right I had an IDE hard drive with a 80gb hard drive there is a datatbase on the system which took up most of the system 60gb which was the LDF files. so I purchased a new SATA hard drive and cloned the drive using XXclone, the data and everything appears to have transfered all ok because I can view the information, however when I installed the sata drive it stated disk boot failure please insert disc and press enter, I have had problems with the old hard drive as the ldf were too big and the system would no longer run not even in recover console. So I had to copy the data using another pc connecting both the original IDE hd and the new SATA hdrive, obviously when formating the drive I also had to set it to another directory name which in this case I named it R: recovery server ? so what am I doing wrong ? in the bios settings it does not show the SATA drive or lists SATA as an option so how do I change this ? I have tried to enable and the SMART system and it set to channel 1 however the same error message came up ? Any help would be greatly appreciated Russell