Anyone know if it's possible to add ide drives to machine that is already running a SATA drive? if it is, how do I make the ide drive visible and usable?Yes, you can...

Does your motherboard have an IDE slot? No? Buy an IDE board for one of the PCI slots on your motherboard.Yes there are two ide and four sata

Okay, the ide drive's in and according to the DEVICE manager it is "working properly". only problem is it don't show up anywhere. anyone got any ideas What operating system? What is the make and model of your hard drive?

If this is a blank drive...you'll need to partition and format it.XP pro, Diamondmax plus 8, the drive full with data that I need to access do formatting isn't NEEDED. my old machine that it CAME from was XP pro, this was a slave.What file system was the old (& new) HDD on?

If one is NTFS and one FAT32 the FAT one won't see the NTFS (or vice versa, I forget... they don't like each other anyway)

Although, if it's SHOWING in Device Manager, I doubt thats the problem.

Does the BIOS recognise the IDE HDD? Ntfs on both. And yes Bios did recognise it.Is it still configured as a slave? If so, try setting jumpers to Master.

Just a heads up...confirm boot device is the SATA drive that has the OS installed.

Post results, please...drive is set to cable select.

yes the sata drive is the boot deviceIf it's still not recognized using cable select jumper settings...did you try master as I suggested in previous post?Is the drive showing in disk management, if so has it been assigned a drive letter, and does it show as "active"?