XP sees and names added slave HD but won't show files

try to get an IDE to usb converter, connect one HDD into your IDE...and the other hard disk into your usb...you will be able to transfer you data...

You need a usb cable to harddisk. than a computer running linux. connect hd by usb to linux and copy.

Hi go in this link there is a how to do this.

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After a hard drive crash, replace the unit. Hard drives are replaced preventatively, in business applications.\
they just fail.

Do you have the option to set the start time on the HD bios 1 second behind the MB bios? I think if you can find that option you will fix your problem. The Bios on your board will see the drive but during normal boot, Xp drivers take over to run the hard drive so if you can slow the HD bios to 1 second behind the board bios this will fix your problem.

Check the cables between the devices. If youve changed out the HD and the DVD drive and still got an issue, the cables are most likely the culprit. If that doesnt help, change the jumper settings on your IDE drives (if master slave setup switch to cable select and vice versa).

You should not use line select on any of the drives at this point. Set the jumpers on the components to one master and one slave on each channel. Personally I would put one HD and one optical drive on each channel and make the optical drives the slaves but that's not required. Win98 uses a different file system than XP (FAT32 compared to the newer NTFS) but you can still use the drive. I would copy all the files you want to save and then reformat it using NTFS for better performance.

Boot into XP, both HD should show up when the jumpers are set correctly. If they still do not show up go into your BIOS and double check that all master/slave designations match what you have set the jumpers to.

set the jumper on the maxtor to cable select and see if that fix's things ?

you need diskmgmt.msc if its a slave drive unalocated.. create partition then format it OR .. if its to install windows on it. boot from xp cd . sometimes sata drives need F6 floppy motherboard driver for installation cd to see sata hd through chip of sata on motherboard.

Give this utility a whirl

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,23069-order,1-page,1-c,utilities/description.html#

This should help you get the data on the drive back to a safe location.

Once that is done, try to reformat again. It could be that when you lost power, the heads crashed. Of course, that is not a good thing.