Harddrive i have a dell with a maxtor (ata harddrive)i would like to know if i can put a seagate barracuda (sata harddrive)if so what do i have to do thanks for all your help

you will need to purchase a serial ata adaptor card for pci slot with support for sata 1/2/3 I believe. Try ebuyer.com

The reason why it is not recognize by the other computer it is because the operating system of your computer is different from dell.

Seagate harddrives are made in China, Not a good product comes from China, Replace it with a western digital harddrive made in the USA

The HDD furnished with this model is:

Seagate Barracuda 40GB ATA/100 7200RPM hard drive

This model of PC pre-dates the use and popularity of SATA HDD technology.

Your answer is "No". Sorry!

Seagate and Maxtor-brand External Hard Drives
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http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=201413&NewLang=en

do not do it

Master (M) on the harddrive that came with the computer, Slave, (S, or SL), on the 2nd harddrive.

Don't see M, S, and CS, on the label of the harddrive? (CS is Cable Select)
Sometimes it's right on the edge, where the 40 pin flat ribbon cable plugs in. It will be letters raised in the plastic, of the harddrive body.

To find where to set the jumpers for these harddrives, I suggest you look at the label. Since you had the Printed Circuit board replaced, I'm guessing you know who made it, and what the model number is.

Some harddrive manufacturers,
1.Western Digital
2.Maxtor, (Maxtor is owned by Seagate now)
3.Seagate
4.Hitachi
5.NEC (No longer in business)
6.Quantum, (sold out to Maxtor)

Here are three links that are videos, and may help with setting jumpers, and setting up those IDE harddrives. (IDE is also referred to as EIDE, ATA, and PATA)
(If you have SATA harddrives, do not touch the jumpers, if any are present! These are for the factory. With a SATA harddrive, you can plug it/them, into ANY available SATA header, {Connector}, on the motherboard. Doesn't matter!)

1.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwbboeMO7b8&feature=related
2.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4inX3nC6M1E&feature=related
3.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtEcwRqzeVo&feature=related

Seagate troubleshooting Error Code 10, states that drive has failed. (Seagate bought out Maxtor)

Before you resign yourself to everything is lost on this harddrive, how about trying one more thing?

How about putting the harddrive inside in a new external enclosure, and see if it works? I suggest that perhaps the external enclosure it's in, is bad.
The harddrive inside is a 3.5 inch harddrive. Same width as used by a desktop computer. It is a Sata harddrive.

Here's an example of a 3.5 inch Sata, external enclosure,
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3901268&CatId=2780
Just pop the external enclosure open that holds it now, take it out, and install it into an external enclosure like the example above. Plug in the USB cable.

Don't know if this applies to your particular Maxtor Personal Storage 3200, but when I went to search for the type of harddrive it uses just now, I ran into thsi, and thought I would pass it along. http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/personal_storage/ps3200-sw)

You have to go online and search then download the drivers for preparing SATA laptop harddrives for installation of Windows XP otherwise during installation it will tell you there is no hard drive found.

Master is 7-8 (the 2 furthest from the power connector)
Slave is no jumpers selected

Here is a manual for your model for reference:

http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/iguides/ata/cuda7200ig.pdf