Hard Drive not recognized

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I have a Maxtor DiamondMax 10 250 GB hard drive. I had
ghosted a dying WD 150 GB drive on it and had been using
it about a week. After a restart it said that ntdlr was
missing. Solved that problem. Then a little while later,
the disk could not be recognized. Took it to a data
recovery place and they said all the data was still on
there. For $100 bucks, they reconstructed the logic on
the drive - whatever that means - but to recover the data
entirely was going to be $1500+. So I took it home to
give the recovery a shot myself. I hooked it up as a
cable select in the slave position on an existing Win XP
Pro cable select ready system. The computer works fine
but I can't see the 250 hard drive anywhere. Not in any
software I have downloaded, not off any boot disks, not in
any command prompts, not even in the BIOS. The cable is
fine, the power is fine, and the drive spins up. What is
wrong? Is there anything I can do for a resonable amount
of time/money? Thanks
 
Try rt clicking MyComputer>select Manage>Disk Management. See if it
shows up there. If yes, rt click on it and give it
a Drive Letter.
 
I have a Maxtor DiamondMax 10 250 GB hard drive. I had
ghosted a dying WD 150 GB drive on it and had been using
it about a week. After a restart it said that ntdlr was
missing. Solved that problem. Then a little while later,
the disk could not be recognized. Took it to a data
recovery place and they said all the data was still on
there. For $100 bucks, they reconstructed the logic on
the drive - whatever that means - but to recover the data
entirely was going to be $1500+. So I took it home to
give the recovery a shot myself. I hooked it up as a
cable select in the slave position on an existing Win XP
Pro cable select ready system. The computer works fine
but I can't see the 250 hard drive anywhere. Not in any
software I have downloaded, not off any boot disks, not in
any command prompts, not even in the BIOS. The cable is
fine, the power is fine, and the drive spins up. What is
wrong? Is there anything I can do for a resonable amount
of time/money? Thanks
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Am I wromg here or are your choices for the drive position either
Master, Slave or Cable Select ?

I have always stayed away from cable select, set my C: drive or first
drive to Master and the second hard drive on the same string to Slave.

If Bios can't see it, then there is a drive select problem.
 
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