Thanks for those bits of reading guys its most appreciated.
I managed to complete some of my XUbuntu "to do" list last night.
My second hard drive is now "mounted" and recognised by the Operating system. You need to mount your extra hard drives so Linux can then do stuff with them. It was ish simple but as ever a few stumbling blocks.
I followed instructions from this post on the
Ubuntuforums (if you're going to follow this - you MUST read the whole thread else you'll probably repeat this guys mistakes!)
Then i used gparted to format the hard drive to ext3. I have linked it to the Xubuntu desktop and tonight i am hoping to move my music across. fingers crossed too.
Next step is VNC and SSH, so i can go head-less!