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i have a hp compaq d530 ive had it sfor almost a year it has xp pro sp3 the master HD is a maxtor IDE and the slave is a maxtor SATA they have been fine together for the whole time ive owned the computer until about a week ago i went to access a program that was on D: [SATA] and it told me "the file the shortcut referred to could not be found" i opened My Computer and low and behold no D: drive so i p[pened device manager only 1 hard disk there so i restarted the computer and ran settings in BIOS its there proceeded to startup after settings [no changes] still only my master HD in both My computer and device manager i could really use some help... also i borrowed a HD also a maxtor but instead of SATA its IDE my BIOS see's it but windows does not could this be bad motherboard??

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Check the jumper settings for the IDE drive.
Check that the cables are not loose.
Go in Disk management and see if it show there. If it does assign it a letter.

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Try booting in safe mode and see if the drive shows up there.

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