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Yeah the drive is working. I just recently took it out of an older PC. I've also tried to install other drives but the same problem happens. (I also checked the IDE cable) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12909538/BIOS.jpg

Alright, apparently my computer can read the drive. But won't give the drive a letter. (I don't want to wipe the HDD.) I've tried having the drive auto install and be read in the BIOS I've also tried manually installing it. The Jumpers are set to Slave. When I try to install the HDD in...

What Atomic said.

I'll pick. I took the easy way out by doing a Repair Install of Windows XP over my current version. Fixed the problem. Just had to reinstall Firefox. All my other data was secure.

Alright cool. I already scanned my whole system twice and no Viruses / Trojans / Malware came up. Makes me wonder why a power shortage would do this...

I'm actually having the same problem with my XP machine right now. I can temporarily get connection by doing system restore to about month ago. After I restart it though, it goes back to the no network/basic windows theme.

@Edit: Ok, I fixed the problem, for some reason now it works with the SATA and CD rom. Thanks for you time and support.

At the moment there is no OS on the SATA HD. But when I have the IDE and CD drive connected it doesn't read either of the drives. That's where I'm mainly getting my problem. When I run 2 IDE channels neither of them run.

I'm having a weird problem with the harddrives of this computer. From what I've been able to figure out is: If I have the SATA harddrive connected the motherboard reads it just fine. If I have the SATA and IDE harddrive connected the motherboard reads both of them but the Preinstalled Windows...