Ok i have a 250gb samsung hard drive already installed into my pc works fine, in a sata2 port, then i went to installed a maxtor 80gb hard drive, ive tried all different pin settings, ive tried switching the wire and it still wont show up in my computer, yet the bios and device manger says it exicts, i currently just changed it into a sata port, it was in sata 2 but still, nothing has changed, can anyone help me?

Kadejd

Have you looked in the Control Panel Administrative Tools Disk Management to find out what's happened?

Actually i never tried that, it worked :), thank you very much :)

Kadejd