ok that was fun
well for the time being, what i can tell you is that the eth0 is not detected at all before i do netcardconfig. It just gives me 'lo' IPs and settings, but i think that has nothing to do with my problem right?
Btw my hard drives (as probably you may have assumed) are formatted as NTFS, which as advised by most linux distros i have, is not fully compatible with linux but just experimental.