Hey guy my computer currently has 2 hardrives installed one of which is a raptor 10000rpm harddrive and the other is my older seagate drive.  I want to install a fresh copy of windows onto the seagate drive however my computer automatically loads up to the raptor drive so if I try to use my windows CD it will just go ahead and think I want to do the fresh install on my raptor when in fact I dont.  Is there anyway to ACCOMPLISH what I need to do?  I did go into BIOS to see if I could change the boot order to use the seagate but only the raptor is LISTED along with the cdrom and floppy.  I IMAGINE this is because the seagate is SET to slave.  Is there an easier way to get around my problem than opening up the computer and changing the wires?Try booting from the XP cd - you'll probably be given an opportunity to select the partition into which you want to install the OSChanging the jumpers on the hard drives master/slave is the correct solution.

Of course ,I didn't answer you question.....You do need to get back in there.Why don't you just unhook the Raptor until AFTER Windows is installed? Make sure it is jumpered correctly and off you go.

Sometimes the easiest solutions are the best.  Thanks alot guys I will start trying these methods!    Now I gotta go post  a topic in the hardware section about another little problem i ran into.  Building my first pc has been a great learning experience though none the less lol