Hmm so is it even worth me buying the DA then?

After a little bit of help with a question i have if poss.
Basically i have 2x 18-55mm kit lens, the ones with the silver band. i'm looking at the DA versions...not the DA L that i have. now i know the difference in the DA and the DA L is the metal mount and the manual override on focus, but whats the difference in the mk1 and mk2 DA lens? is it really worth me getting the mk2 as opposed to the mk1

Also can i ask, why has it got to be xp?

Oh dear then you may have a problem, the 80gig drive may not be sata and if it isnt then chances are the bios may not support it, older motherboards even tho they have the sata ports dont have the support in the bios, generally what happens if you buy a motherboard it comes with a device driver disk. on that disk is a little program that makes a sata device floppy for during the windows install which allows windows then to recognise sata and the drives your trying to install. Windows itself will recognise them after an install but not during. without knowing exactly what you have i cant help too much but this does sound like the case to me.

Options are, vista or windows 7, or running them slave from the original one.

Also.....When you asked if it supported 1tb drives did you say to install windows on them? or just support as in find them as a slave, cus they are 2 big differences when it comes to installs etc.

The big problem is its Dell....there so custom its unreal.

If there SATA drives which i presume they are then it may be your version of windows or pc bios thats not detecting them. Maybe your bios not set up to correctly identify SATA drives which would mean xp wont either.

if its a brand new pc that should not matter to be honest as it should be already SATA and set up properly. It may be that the Bios is not capable and the dell s/w installs the SATA drivers pre windows install, if this is the case you need to either see if the disks you have with the pc will allow you to make a SATA setup floppy which you then have to press an F button during install to install additional drivers. or download the drivers and make a setup disk.

Question is why do you want a windows install on both? if you already have widows on the hard drive the pc came with all you need is to plug in the additional drives and run them as slaves.

Yeah Ebay can be a gamble like that, i suppose i was lucky in the respect it was fairly local seller so i went and had a look first.

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generally find quite a few on ebay, i got mine on there for £60 which is about the going rate on there, its in mint condition with front and rear caps.

anyone in the usa able to hook up with bychan and sort it out for them? if bychan pays of course could someone in the us buy it and post here?