Recently received a new hard drive, Sea gate sata 500gig. Wanting to use it soI removed my old sata 80 gig drive and installed new drive. All went well, so I figured I can now use old drive as backup. Not so. When I installed the old drive, windows will see it, but tells me there is no data and that the drive is raw. Even if I pull the new drive out and try to run the old drive as before, the bios does not recognize the drive. What gives? Worked fine before I switched them out. Don't know if this helps, but both drives are loaded with xp pro. Should be able to a least dual boot. right or wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I have data on the old drive I need to access. Sys specs, cpu, 6600 core 2 quad, 4gig of ram, mb is an asus P5q-pro with 650 watt ps.
Hard drive issue
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