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My husband - God love him, added another drive to our system. Sounds simple right? Now when you try to use the cd rom drive - it won't work, you can't install anything from it and when you look at the drive it is disabled. I tried to enable it but it won't work. I also disabled the new drive and tried to enable the old drive, it still won't work. The 2 drives share the same location when you look at them via My Computer: Location 1 [1] I'm not sure if this has anything to do with it or not. Any advice would be appreciated. It's driving me crazy,

Depending on the 'age' of your PC, most PCs have 2 IDE connectors, on which you can connect 2 drives each.
The flat-cable has one side on the motherboard, the Master-drive on that cable is on the other far-end, and a possible Slave-drive connects to the middle of that cable.
The Master on IDE-0 (the first group) is normally the booting harddisk C-drive with Windows on it.
The Master on IDE-1 (the second group) is normally the CD-ROM/CDRW/DVD, or the D-drive.
If you add another harddisk to the above system, you would connect it as Slave to the middle of the first cable (you set master/slave jumpers on the back of the harddisk). After it has been partitioned and formatted, it would become the next free drive-letter E under XP or W2K.
In W98 and probably ME the new harddisk would become D and the CD/DVD would 'move up' to E.

Does any of this sound familiar?