If the 320gb drive in your sig is an ide type drive but you have an optical drive plugged in as master at the end of the cable Windows will still be seen as C while the hard drive is in the slave position on the cable. Most will automatically plug an optical drive in as slave to the hard drive while either position will see Windows run.
That would be on a board seeing only one ide channel since with two channels the optical would be set as master on the secondary ide channel with the hard drive as master on the primary. A second hard drive likely for storage would then be the slave to the OS host/boot drive.
Sata on the other hand offers two distinct advantages of first having thinner data cables not the wide flat grey colored ribbon type generally seeing better air flow. Plus you can have 8 sata ports on a board and plug a single drive into the last port and still see that set as the default boot device by simply moving that to the top of the list of hard drives. The port determines position without the need for setting a jumper for master or slave making things easier there.
Good work! Vizy93 You'll get better as you go along. We all have to start somewhere.
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