issue has been resolved :-) all i did was after installing win 7 on sata drive whilst running ide it caused dual boot so relogged into sata went to device manager and disabled the ide this made the sata drive primary then i turned off ide for hd in bios to stop pc looking for it this allowed me to remove the ide from pc and run sata drive then spent most of the day downloading ms updates (hates fresh installs lol) thanks again jaclaz