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JSchramm · Member Joined: 06 Jun 2007 Posts: 2

I have to get some files off of an old Maxtor IDE hard drive. I have my primary hard drive (SATA) as the primary boot source, with the old hard drive (IDE) as slave to my CD burner. My Windows XP Media Center Edition is installed on the SATA drive, with the needed files on the IDE drive.

I have the jumpers correct, as well as all of the cables. Here is my dilemma.

Earlier I was able to get the computer to recognize the IDE hard drive. When I turned on Windows, it would detect the new hardware and tell me that it is now ready to be used. I double checked and it was in fact in the Device Manager. However, it was not in My Computer, and I could not access it. It was also not listed in Computer Management.

When I would try to restart and go into my BIOS settings, after the HP splash screen, I would simply get a blank black screen, with a white cursor blinking in the top left. So, I don't even know if the BIOS is recognizing the IDE hard drive.

Now, I cannot even get the IDE hard drive to show up in the Device Manager. I don't know what I changed, but I think it might just be a jumper problem or something of the sort.

I am rather new to all this, so go easy on me. Any help would be appreciated quite a bit, as these files are required for my job and I have a limited time to retrieve them.

Thanks in advance.