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I do have an old motherboard so I will try it in this. Thanks everyone for your help. Ian

Yes tried all combinations of drives / channels / slave / master / cable select.... Just isn't detected. Ian

Yep - that's the issue here! Its got power as the diodes flash, but it refuses to spin. It did this initially, but I removed the DVD and it started up again. After adding the DVD again it has stopped altogether. Ian

Clare, it is a combo from Liteon and works fine with another HDD. But the issue is that something has affected the original boot HDD - with lots of important data on it! The HDD even when it is the only thing connected doesn't seem to spin up now. Anyone know if HDDs can get confused into...

The DVD is fine, have installed XP on another HDD using it! Ian

Allan, its the HDD that is not being recognized! Ian

The original config was Quantum of IDE1 as slave with CD as master. Two other slaves on IDE 3 and IDE 4. When I put the DVD on IDE 2 as master and kept the Quantum on IDE1 as slave it stopped responding - not spinning. When I removed the DVD and all other drives it was OK again. Now it...

Have a Gigabyte GA7VAXP Ultra with 3 HDDs attached. Boots off a Quantum Fireball AS 60Gb on slave setting on IDE 1 (the only way it would be recognised when I upgraded to this MB!). Just tried to add an IDE DVD writer to the machine and it stopped recognizing the Quantum HDD (fireball AS...

try using 'iif' not 'if'