Hi,

Thanks for the reassurance (and I ALWAYS have a back-up!). I had been told and read that swapping the SATA2 drives to AHCI from IDE would increase performance in some games (specifically DCS:Black Shark), and increase drive access speed. Accessing the drives SEEMS to go faster, but that could just be the placebo effect making me feel warm and fuzzy.

On a related note, now both HDD's show up in the little "Safely Remove Hardware" icon on the task bar. Is there a way to force them not to show up there? It's not the end of the world as I am generally pretty careful but my wife uses the computer as well and is not as careful as I would like her to be.

Thanks