@Rokaem: "Recently I had to replace my primary (master) HD, my 2nd (slave) worked fine 
and has data on it. I reinstalled windows XP home and the master HD seems ok 
but my slave doesn't appear under "my computer". If I use "device manager" it 
is listed, and says it is working properly: however, the "device usage" area 
at the bottom of the window is grey and has nothing in it. When I look at my 
master, the "device usage" area gives me a choice: [1] use this device 
(enabled), [2] do not use this device (disabled). I have tried everything I 
can think of, I might even try reformatting the drive if I could sellect it.
All help is appreciated. Thanks. Rokaem"
    @anonymous: "you got your jumpers set right
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    @Rokaem: "I didn't change the jumpers on my slave HD so they should still be fine. I 
did double check the new Master and they are set correctly.
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    @nognog: ""Rokaem" <email_address> wrote in message 
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It acts like it's unformated. Boot your CD again and see if you can format 
it from there."
    @Rokaem: "I gave it a try but since my drive doesn't appear in [computer 
mangagement>device manager>volumes] I can't find a way to assign a drive 
letter. The drive does appear in the list "disk drives" under "device 
manager" so I can click on it to veiw the properties. I may not have said it 
before,but this is a SCSI set-up. Both of my drive are IDE and are connected 
through a ATA/IDE controler card. Since this is a system with a few years 
under its belt, it must be set up to see everything as SCSI. 
Thanks for your input.
rokaem
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    @Rokaem: "Are you saying I should re-boot from my windows CD to find the drive? This is 
a HD that I have used for some time and I haven't changed anything, shouldn't 
it appear just as before? The only thing I have done differently is Partition 
the master HD into three parts. This new master is 80GB and I read that I 
could improve performance if I restricted windows to its own partition, then 
made another for my software, and made the rest of the drive "Data". These 
three partitions, plus two disk drives,mean my slave HD would now need to be 
labled "H". Would this change in letter assignment cause my problem (the 
slave used to be drive "D")? 
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