OK my computer died.... actually only windows XP did it wont boot up at all so.... i took my 2 harddrives out one was SATA and the other is IDE i connected both to this computer that im on now but only the SATA is showing up and its the one with windows on it, the other is just a drive with movies and music on it, is there any reason why i cant see it at all? it is in FAT32 format but i thought XP could read FAT32...

Oh yea if you must know... I was gonnna take the important stuff off of the SATA and format it so i would have the stuff as backup on the IDE drive but it wont show up....

im building a new computer once this is all settled i will convert the other drive to NTFS it used to be on a windows Me computer as a slave thats why it is FAT32

so if you guys can tell me how to see this drive in XP so i can copy stuff over to it i will be very happy

is the ide drive showing up in your bios?

if not, make sure you have all channels enabled in there

it is showing up now but it still isnt showing up in my computer

ignore that last post it makes no sense

its in bios yes but it still isnt showing up in windows

i tried disk management but all i see is C drive and D drive (SATA drive)

no E drive