Hmmm, had to reinstall xp, had 2 hdd's in the case, one master one slave, of course. Left em both connected while reinstalling. setup found various partitions on drives, (strange, think they were both listed as drive 0- slave had once been master until new drive arrived, when its jumpers were set to slave it and xp went on new master). I deleted 2 partitions before setting up xp, thought they were both on same drive, think now they weren't. One was maybe on the slave. Now system does not see the slave, altho' it shows in device manager! How can I access the slave now to get the data off it? Put a partition on (how?), will this format the disc or overwrite any data? Can't get into bios due to keyboard probs too. Agh,,,blurgggh help! Thx very much for taling the time to read this guys,,,,

Hi can you see the second hard drive in disk management under the administrative tools in the control panel?

Hi Matt,,, yes, I am getting disk 0 and disc 1, both showing "online", but disc 1 is only showing unallocated space, 37.27Gb- (probably about right since there is alot of files on it), but total cap is 160Gb, and its listed as BASIC 32.27Gb, whereas disc 0 is also 160Gb, and shows as BASIC 186.31 ! (with 58Gb unallocated, and 127.99Gb NTFS healthy). Weuuurrrgh,,,,,,,! Cheers matt.