okay, new problem. I actually saw this before reading your reply here and realized that could be it, so yeah, you were right. but the new problem is that I cant get back to Vista now. I am running XP x64 version right now on one of my 100GB drives (the other 100GB has random music etc), and I have Vista on my raided 160GBs (all these drives i mentioned are SATA). For some reason, I cant boot off of the raided 160s to get on vista anymore. it tells me to select a proper boot device. I cant remember how I set my raided 160s as being a boot drive. how do i do this? oh, btw, my motherboard is an ASUS P5W DH Deluxe and thanks again all edit: oh thinkster, nvm, i misread what you were saying. but either way, i have the hard drives i have, and im not buying new ones at this point lol