I don't normally use ATA as anything other than backup purely because C
drive has always been an IDE on this machine and I am not really wanting to
muck about with that for it. After all it isn't an expensive motherboard so
I am waiting till later this year before I replace it.

Anyway, in the meantime, I needed more backup space so put an ATA in as a
backup drive only and what do you know, the minute it does, the IDE drives
go haywire, wanting to be installed all the time AS ATA drives. I got sick
of this, disconnected the ATA drive (the only 1) and then turned ATA off in
BIOS but still the ****ed IDE drives were playing up. I attempted to make
them show up as normal IDE drives by reinstalling the drivers but it only
resulted in both drives not being available to the system and Vista refusing
to boot. So I did a restore from image backup to a day ago and still without
the ATA drive attached and ATA being disabled in bios, when it came back to
Windows, it shows the IDE drives as their model name and "ATA device" when
they are IDE.

So, does anyone have any idea how to make the drives KNOW that they are IDE
again please? Thanks.