Hey and thanks for reading my question :-) Well I have a 40gig hard drive that is windows only, I just bought a brand new 40gig hard drive wich I will partition in to, half for windows (FAT32) half for linux (redhat 7.1) my problem isn't really getting it partition I don't think, I just dont know how to install this new hard drive, it's sitting inside the case screwed in and I have the IDE cable used with my #1 hard drive, it has another slot on it for my new hard drive and also the power cord. So my main problem is setting the jumpers I think... I want windows to me my main but linux to load LILO and stuff when I boot to chose of course. Im not sure if I make my new hard drive a slave? or what, im so confused on the jumpers and how I if I need to change my other (primary) Hard drives jumpers so it's dual with my new one. Please help me, it would be SO HELPFUL TO ME!! BTW: the main drive with windows is a maxtor and the new drive that will run linux on one of the partitions is a western digital.

Your primary hard drive needs to have its jumper in either the 'slave present' or 'master' position. Your secondary drive should have no jumpers on it. Go into BIOS and run 'hard drive autodetect' if the option is there, otherwise consult the info on the hard drive stickers and type in the right cylinders, heads etc for each drive. To have LILO run on boot, you'll need to install it to the boot sector of your primary hard drive. I've never done that before so I don't know if there's any trick to it or not. I think that WindowsNT won't boot unless it 'owns' the boot sector, so you may have problems there. You'll probably need a Linux boot disk regardless. Hope this helps!

Ignore that post someone left, that could work if your very lucky, but highly unlikely, what you need to do is put your 1st hard drive on the 1st channel as primary master and the second drive as either primary slave or secordary master or slave depending on what your cd-rom is connected to, if you need more help then please email me at chris@smith7494.freeserve.co.uk and i`ll help you with it. chris