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Problem with IDE HDD after trying External Enclosure

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Hey sorry if this is in the wrong space but I'm running out of ideas.

I have recently built an entirely new system (with Retail Edge), but I made sure to take out my 120GB IDE HDD out of my old computer. I tried an external enclosure (DYNEX), and it just spun the drive, Vista didn't recognize anything. So I take it out and put it in internally (jumpered as master and slave w/ optical drive on single IDE channel of the DG33TL MOBO). Vista said it was installing some drivers, but then nothing showed up, not even in disc configuration utility.

I realize that I may have had it jumpered wrong when it was in the enclosure, but that would not prevent it from working when in my computer. I was using an ESD bracelet the entire time too. Any ideas / suggestions?
 
Well at first all I was trying to do was just make it an external hard drive. Then I tried just for an internal drive, that didn't work either.

Now I just want my 120GB of stuff off of there without swallowing my tongue and going up to Geek Squad, lol
 
does it show up in your devices menu? Did you bend/break one of the IDE pins when you were playing with it? Are you sure it's jumper'ed right to work internally?
 
It's under the same config it was in the last computer (slave with the optical drive definately set to master). Doesn't show up in Device Manager or anything else. I might check for broken pins.
 
No hard drive in BIOS. Checked in 2 different jumper configs. I'm going to try checking the IDE pins tonight if I ever get offline
 
when you go to check the pins, see if you can hear the harddrive spin up when you turn the power on as well.
 
Ok so for an update, I popped the hard drive back into the old computer, and the computer immediately found it. No pins bent or broke, works fine under slave for my master hard drive. My new PC didn't even recognize it though. NTFS at work you think?

UPDATE:

Problem solved. Put old hard drive in new computer and set up both Optical drive and Hard drive as cable select. (Apparently Master/Slave doesn't like me)
 
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