[Nemecys]

Hi im having some problems with my Maxtor Harddrive, i just took it out of my old computer which wasn't working cant remember the problem but im pretty sure the harddrive is fine it was running Windows XP and worked like a charm,

but now i just bought my mates computer also running Windows XP with all the internal components such as RAM Harddrive etc, now i just plugged in my old Maxtor Harddrive and its saying that its found it the safe tool removal picture in the task bar and recognized it but the computer cant find it, what i mean is in My Computer i cant find my harddrive can some please help

Its a Maxtor 4RO8OLO and the master one is ST380011A what ever that is and they both seem to work find but i cant find it what could be the problem thanks

also the Maxtor was my old master harddrive so id like to try and keep the data on there

[Dave Hybrid]

This should help. > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000

[Nemecys]

i read it like but im not sure what it means im an ok computer guy but im not sure what i want to do to use my harddrive like i duno what a logical partition is etc.. what should i do?

[philthomas]

A bit of clarification .... when you say you "i just plugged in my old Maxtor Harddrive" .... what do you mean ? ... i.e. did you put it ina USB enclosure and plug it into a USB port ? or have you opened up your friends PC and connected it as the slave drive, with an IDE cable ?
If the latter, did you change the jumper setting on the drive ?

[Dave Hybrid]

That Microsoft topic explains how to assign a drive letter and setup to a new hard drive.

If the drive shows up in the BIOS but not in Windows you need to run disk manager as per those instructions and setup the drive.

[Nemecys]

yea i opened it up and connected it internally cause it failed externally so i thought find ill just plug it in internally and yes i did change the jumper settings its what the harddrive says is slave

[Dave Hybrid]

You need to get it showiing up in the BIOS, if it isn't, the jumpers are wrong.

[Nemecys]

break it down a smidge more cause bios again unsure of that but it shows up in the Disk Manager thing and in the driver thing

[philthomas]

What exactly is Disk Mangement reporting ?

[Dave Hybrid]

You need to be a little more descriptive, as yet the Internet isn't psychic.