i am in very much a bind...<BR><BR>i told partition magic 3 things...move a partition to back of HDD2 and take out 8gb of its free space and put it in the front. also added 8gb of free space to HDD1'd ...

If you intend to not use boot disks all the time then it is. Most BIOSes can't boot on a partition beyond the 1023rd cylender. What most people do is just make a small (~50 meg) /boot partition at the ...