ok well now i feel like a noob for posting a topic and being the only one to talk in the topic when i could have just stuck it out for a few more hours and fixed it without making myself look stupid :P. well i dont really know what i did to fix it...but i plugged everything back in like normal after changing a few permissions and at first it still gave me the same error even though i had changed it so taht others could write to the drive as well as the owner... but then i unmounted it and was able to sucessfully copy files to the hard drive, and was then able to edit permissions for some reason but i wasnt able to before...so i took advantage of it workin and had it change the permissions for the root folder of teh slave hd so taht ayone could read and write to it and then i made it apply those settings to all subfolders and now it works so to put it shortly, im a noob, i solved my problem but dont know how, posted a topic declaring my noobishness to all, and all flames are deserved but in the end.... hey, i got my problem solved :P