Thanks Peter, I'll check that out as soon as I have the time, not sure how I configured the drives, though the primary drive (my OS) is indeed a SATA.
I have probably configured the two IDE as master and slave and left the DVD on the second cable.

I picked my sons brains on sunday (he's an IT engineer) he reckons its simply a case of windows explorer throwing a tantrum, especially as the problem is with every drive including the SATA.

Thanks for the input guys, but the problem still persists, XP has updates instaled, motherboard drivers are all OK, no problems showing in device manager, I'm going to try and find an answer on an XP forum.

Has anyone experienced problems with Win XP being slow to read and display thumbnails?
I recently aquired my sons "old" PC as it was becoming too slow to run games, the processor was the same speed as my old one (2.21Ghz) but he assured me it was a superior processor to mine, it also had 3gig of RAM compared to my 1gig; plus a video card to allow extended desktop onto a second monitor (I have yet to try this)

The Hard Drive was formated and a fresh copy of XP instaled but I now get this problem when opening up image folders, this is on my back up drive which was added as a second drive after the re-install and also new folders created on the newly formatted drive, the thumbs take forever to load, when they do not all of them display at full size and some even just dispaly a file icon, I have to do "select all" an "refresh thumbnail" to make any sense of whats what, if I close the folder and re-open it I have to go through the same process again, my image transfer rate (camera to PC) seems to have slowed down also.

Any ideas?

Hmmm....

I tried bounce flash with my K10D and AF360FGZ at my wifes 50th birthday bash last Feb. we held it at the local social club, my images ALL had a very strange yellow cast from the nicotine stained ceiling

That was definately a case of bad handling.....of the situation by the photographer

OOER!

Seem to be having problems with my posts, if this is somewhere else on the forum by mistake then I apologise;

Pete; Nice foot job I really like this one (and no I dont have a foot fetish, not unless there in boots )
The shot is just so simple yet IMHO very effective, the only criticisym I have is that annoying white area just above the toes, have you considered cloning it out?

WHOOPS

That first shot shouldn't be here, it was taken on my istD Anyway Tyr you ask what exotic place it was taken in well heres the answer......Whitby

Well this thread just PROVES the quality of the Pentax brand and also shows the amount of talent out there, nice images everyone

Now we'll spoil it by adding some of mine

some of you will have seen these before;

??? you have me at a loss mate shooting at f1.4 on a 50mm lens (75mm on the K10D) will still need precise focusing, not having to worry about focusing (too much) only happens with wide angle lenses where the DOF is so great.

Well I managed to sift through my images, I took around 50 including the bracketed shots, I'll probably end up keeping about two of them

The first is more or less the same as Daniels, although I took the time to use the tripod I had carried around all day so the DOF is far greater than Daniels shot

The second is something that caught my eye and I thought lets give it a whirl, not perfect and certainly not the shot of the year but it beats the other 48







Looking forward to the next meet

Well Daniel (AKA Tyr) seems to have got off to a good start, just had a look through his album and he got some nice shots on the day, I guess he was a little more enthuthiastic than me, I've seen Saltaire hundreds of times so my shutter finger wasn't as excited as his

Still to have a good lok at mine yet, hopefully I may have the odd one that sparkles.