brommelandc

both drives are 5 years old now and i bought the new computer because the old computer completely calved, its not the power supply i have isolated the drive and still does not work, i tried changing power supplies to no avail, and the hard drive worked fine coming out of the old computer, and i have no access to the files on the new computer as i have no way to explore the drive

I just bought a computer from my school and it came with no hard drives. So copied my files over from my first hard drive, a 30GB Maxtor Drive, formatted it, installed windows home on it and used it in the new computer it worked great (previously had xp pro sp2). I went to install my 80GB seagate drive used for media only (music and dvd's) and the bios recognizes the drive, device manager recognizes it, but does not show up in my computer or disk management, i tried using fdisk out of dos 6.22 and it recognizes it but says the drive is not functioning. Any thoughts on a patch or way to get around this without formatting the drive?