Thanks for the help, guys. I do, however, have 2 hardrives, both are SATA, and require some sort of ide cable, but its not quite an IDE, its a blue strip, that acts as one, and has a mini MOLEX cable for the power, i've never seen a HD that requires these cable types, so ill remove my main one (which is orginally external) and ill re-format the internal one, make the external hd external again, copy the file to the internal HDD, and boot to it using my boot menu at the load up bios screen. i will post back here upon further progress, or more help. thanks again for the tips and feedback, it's very appreciated!