thanks for the reply as i really want to get this working...
ok, when installing i chose the MBR (i've done this many many times now) but for some reason it looks like it's installing to the boot partition regardless...i can try to install again and see if it works and if not then how do i set the boot partition active...
also, since my last post i changed my 3rd hd to the first boot drive...it found grub and loads windows, but when i try to select fedora (2 fedora options) it says unknow format or unknown device configuration or something like that, i will try again tonight to check on that
you said earlier that sata setups are different, is that correct? all 3 of my hd's are sata with the only other devices being my cd drives which are both ide, does this matter?