Two identical drives; One Computer..

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I have 2 WDC1600js hard drives in my system. (same size ). They were both running great untill i replaced my mobo, and now i get error 42 in my device manager.

" Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware because there is a duplicate device already runing in the system."

Previously they were set to mirror each other but now im not sure if i want to do that. How can i configure them either way
 

adroittechnologies

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the drives are not formatted. I have tried them one at a time. The main boots and runs great. The other displays the BSOD if it is ran alone. This is a friends computer and he cant lose any info from either drive. I am running xp pro, with a new mobo, and 3 gb of ram. Im positive this is not a hardware issue. Here is the exact error..
code 42" cannot load the device driver for this hardware because there is a duplicate device already running in the system
i probably shouldve posted that from the start...
thanks
 

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