Thank you ukbobboy01 for all your advice.... will give those external drives with power supply a bash....
I can certainly appreciate the benefits.


Peerless - I really appreciate your reply.... I just don't understand what BIOS Settings and Legacy USB Support means....

In terms of an install cd - what I do know is that my drive didn't come with one.... so I can't do anything in that respect....


With regard to my ridiculously slow speeds and stupid delays - a thought occurred to me....
Could this maybe be something to do with AVG perhaps and not my actual pc?
Limewire and AVG running at once - surely that's gotta make a difference to pc speed and performance....?