Hello, I have a Chaintech mother board w/an Atholon 550 mhz processor, 310mb of ram. Here's my situation. I have three hard drives (not all connected at once). A 4G(Maxtor), 8G (Maxtor) and a 60G (Western Digital). I had connected only my 60G hard drive and installed Windows XP Prof and formatted the drive NTFS. I then connected the 60G as a slave drive under my 4G hard drive which was running XP Prof under NTFS, and copied all my info to the new drive. Later, I had disconnected my 4G and replaced it with the 8G hard drive (to transfer data) as the master. This drive had XP Prof on it also but under FAT32 format. This seemed to confuse the Master Boot Record, (I assume) now I can't access my data. The drive is recognized by the BIOS and the Device Manager in Windows "see's" it ( it's listed under the drives). Under the format description in Device manager it is listed as bieng formatted as a Master Boot Record. I cannot access the drive through msdos either. I t is not listed with a drive letter. I realllly need this info it's for my small buisness. I don't know if I have given you enough info, and if there is anything I can offer for your help. Please let me know. I appreciate your time and Thank you.

can you install the 60 gig as the master, and the last 8 gig as a slave, or did you allready try that. I got a little confused by that part. It only says you replaced the 4 gig,, which at that time was master.