That's what I'll probably do then, but it won't work to plug the second hdd into the sata1 port and then continue to boot into my regular main drive and just access the files through the second drive in "my computer"? I don't actually need to boot to the hdd I just want to access the data on it as a drive.

I read on Tomshardware.com that with sata systems you can do it that way but on a IDE chain you need to set master/slave.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/25...drive-computer