My main HD is a 80GB WD HD with windowsXP sp2 and the Drive in question its a slave Drive, right now its on my usb 2.0/firewire external encloser, that the only place I can see it in windowsXP. I have tried the HD in the system also but it won't boot to windows I also tried westen digital data lifeguard 11 in both windows and DOS and nothing. Anyone here has any help for me? Thanks. I am trying to make my WD HD 250GB work in windowsXP sp2 and I can't seem to get it to come up on windows disk management . I can see the drive in device Manager. Disk Management Device Manager