I have two Maxtor hard drives with the same problem. The drive was working and I connected a new formated drive as a slave to copy data to. When I booted up the system would not boot. I shut down removed the slave and got the same problem. It says no boot device. I put this HD into another computer as a slave to try and read it. At boot up the same thing happened. Removing the slave the second HD will not boot.
The drive is recogized as the corrcect size on IDE0 in the start up screen but says no boot device
When I use Max Blast it recogonizes the drive and reads and writes to it and says it's OK, but when I click to read the partion data is says: Vol?,Label NONFAT,Type No FAT,MHsize 344MB,MB used 344 100% use. The drive is a 80 GB drive.
On had Win XP and one had WIN 2000 on it with NTFS format.
Is the MBR corrupted? How can I save the drive without loosing the data? Neither drive is recogonized as being ther at boot up.
I tried to reinstall XP on the one but when it was ready to do a new reinstall it shoed the partion size about 1/10 actual size. I stopped at this point. The other drive has not been touched or written to. HELP

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Make sure the jumpers are set correctly when booting. (Master/Slave configuration)

Jumpers were set correctly. I put in my XP cd and entered the repair console. I entered the command fixboot and fixed the boot record. I then did a reinstall of win XP which lost all the pointers to the programs but did save all the data intact which was my main concern.

Im glad you got it resolved