[MistaD]

My dad gave me an old server from his office. The server had a SATA disk drive,one IDE disk drive and a SATA CD ROM drive. I have instaled Windows XP on the computer and everything is running fine and I can use all the Drives. The other day I got a IDE hard disk drive. I'd like to install it but I don't know what needs to be done. What do I do?

[etaf]

The existing IDE disk may be on a cable that has the facility to add two drives - configure the new IDE drive as a slave and then plug the cables in
I would check the power rating of the PSU before hand, make sure its not 250W or something low

it would also be worth checking the existing IDE and see how its configured master slave or cable select etc .....

do you know which physical drive is used to boot from

[MistaD]

I boot from the SATA drive, but I have a partition in the slave IDE that is XP formated as well.