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Cannot access HD

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Clockworks

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I built a brand new machine but I wanted to use the same HD. I decided that it would be better to format the drive and start clean, so I bought an enclosure, took it to my brother's PC to try to back up the files but it doesn't show in 'My Computer'. I looked at the 'Safely remove hardware' and the drive is there.

It is an 80GB WD ATA HD.

Any suggestions as to how I can access the drive, I can't afford to lose some of the stuff in the drive?

Any help would be appreciated.

BTW, the drive has four users, none had passwords, and it was running Windows XP Home.
 
Which mobo are you using?

Have you shut down the comp and restarted to see if it "sees" it then?

Have you gone into BIOS (hardware config) and checked its status there?


EDIT:

nevermind
 
The drive is PATA, it is in an enclosure, tried restarting, and it is an MSI board.
 
from another forum

SATA always has to be a master. And if you use a regular IDE drive in the system, it also has to be a master. You can't put a slave on a SATA drive.

Part of the confusion is the use of the term "PATA" instead of IDE. They are the same. So making a PATA slave to a SATA is the same as trying to slave a IDE to a SATA - can't be done.
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and this..



First of all, there's no problem with using Serial ATA hard drives and Parallel ATA (IDE) hard drives at the same time. The problem people seem to be having here, is the BIOS has set the IDE hard drive as a higher priority in the boot order. If Windows is installed on the Serial ATA drive, you'd better make sure that's the first hard drive in the boot order. Some motherboards make IDE come first, some make SATA come first. Change the order yourself in the BIOS.

What the computer is doing, is asking the IDE hard drive "Where's your operating system?" and it replies "I don't have one." That's invalid boot disk, hard disk error. If you flip flop the priority of the SATA hard drive and IDE hard drive.. you won't have this problem.

As far as what to set the jumpers to make it work for serial ATA... what is the point? You can use your parallel hard drives on IDE and serial hard drives on SATA, they also make adapters to put on the IDE slot of the hard drive, and have a SATA connector coming off that, that's the only reason to set jumpers of a hard drive to work on SATA, and it depends on the adapter. Some like Master, some like Cable Select.
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and this.....hope it helps


I figured out what the problem was. After I made my pata drive a master drive, instead of slave, and for some reason I had to make my pata drive listed in my bios as 1st then my sata drive and it worked. The logic I was using and what was posted here makes that seems backwards. But it worked so I am not going to worry about it.
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I know, but the drive is inside an enclosure meaning that it is external.
 
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