Woohoo!!
I now have a SATA DVD writer and a new 500GB of space to play around with.
I did try the install yesterday, but for I had a couple of settings in BIOS mucked up (can you say crash and burn?).
Got up early this morning and under the influence of hideous amounts of caffeine, managed to get things working properly.
RAID is not something I really need at this point in time, I've pretty much got everything backed up to the hilt, so if either the IDE or this new drive fails, I'm not going to run home crying to Mummy.
Thanks a heap for all of you guys that gave very good advice, it's most appreciated.
Mike.
