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I took an old hard drive out of my old computer tto install into this new set up. It is a Maxtor Diamondmax 10 drive model # 6V200EO SATA II drive I plugged directly into the mother board. When I connected it I assumed that it would automatically detect as the slave ( it also has windows xp on it), It booted through the 1st drive hit an error and then rebooted again onto the ssecond drive ( the one I'm trying to install as the slave). I shut down and unplagged the HD. Started back up and then plagged the "slave" in. It saw the " slave drive". Do I need to remove windows from the "slave drive", is it a bios setting I didn't do or something else I'm missing.

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