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When a new hard drive is added to a system how and what is normally configured to allow the new hd to be the primary boot disk? Im adding another hd and while i will most likey leave the
existing drive the boot drive i might want to switch. Do i have to tinker with the BIOS? :p Thanks.
You do need to go into the bios, somewhere you'll find something along the lines of 'boot order', which you can set to be any hard/floppy/CD drive you want (as long as you bios supports boot from CD).
That's all you need to do, but I would recommend for speed that when you add the new drive you make it the primary master, ie: you connect it to the IDE1/Primary IDE channel, and set it's jumpers to "master". (you may have to set your old drive to "slave" to make it work on the same cable).