Okay, this seems strange. I have an Asus A7N8X Deluxe Mobo. Everything was working great with a Maxtor 60 gig hard drive. I recently decided to take advantage of the Serial ATA capabilities of my mobo and bought 2 WD Raptor 10,000 RPM drives and I have them striped. I reinstalled Windows XP Pro, Updated with Microsoft, etc. All works flawlessly, but..... I am trying to retrieve all of the info from my original IDE Master Hard Drive and am rapidly becoming discouraged. In the past, I have been able to run a second hard drive as a slave and access all of the info and transfer it to the new drive, but now when I try to access the original IDE drive (jumper settings set to slave, secondary channel), it asks if I want to format the drive. I freaked, and said no. When I click on properties, it says drive size is 0 and there is 0 Mbytes used. Windows still seems to recognize the drive within my computer because if I reboot and disconnect it, it disappears. When I boot into DOS, using a Win ME start up disk, it recognizes the drive and all the files still in there. I have tried copying these files using basic DOS commands to another IDE hard drive, and this works well except I can't seem to get the subdirectories. I have tried: "copy X:\*.* /a /e /k /i /c" and similar commands. It copies about 30 MB and that is all. It doesn't seem to get any subdirectories. I really just need my email and my bookmarks. If anybody has any ideas, I would be very thankful for any input. P.S. Windows recognizes all other hard IDE hard drives installed in this ones' place. P.P.S I have tried Maxor's Hard Drive Install boot disk with PowerMax to try to image the drive, but it says the drive is not partitioned and will not access it to retrieve files. Anybody?

To copy directories and sub directories: XCOPY /S C:\xxxxxx D:\xxxxxx You may also want to take a look at www.xxcopy.com as this is more poweful than the standard M$ offering!

Have you tried mounting the drive? Login as your PC's administrator, go to Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management See if the drive is recognized along with the partitions.

Be warned that when you mount such a drive, it won´t be recognized by your Win9x/Me bootdisk again!!!. Andrés

if you want try my mbr.com and save the mbr from this drive to a file, send it me and i take a look at it and tell you if there is something wrong with the partitions. download of mbr.com from http://plop.at under downloads use from a dos bootdisk mbr -d 1 -r mbr.bin and send me the mbr.bin file