cheers i managed to sort it.

One of the connectors on the IDE cable was sligly faulty and i ended up having to use some tweezers to get a bit of plasstic out of it. :rolleyes:

dave

Okay. I have an old hard drive that needs restoring which needs to put into my computer as a slave drive, restored and then switched to master.

Am i right in thinking that all i need to do is...

that is exactly what im looking for cheers. now to find a student edition.

Right, basicly sent my computer away to be fixed and the buggers formatted my hardrive as part of the process. They tried to migrate it onto a new hardrive but the image wouldn't ghost(not entirely...