Just a FYI... (Clicking drives are bad things!)

If you just lost the partition table, there's a program called MBRWork that may be able to restore it for you.

There's also a Linux utility...

Can you repeat the process on the computer?

I would guess you've got some conflict with your drives, so try this:
Go to Start> Run
Type "command" and press ok.
type "FDISK /STATUS" and write...

vicec64, it's not an IDE floppy cable, it's just a floppy cable. IDE refers to hard disk technology. (Besides a twist at the end, there's also 6 fewer pins on a floppy cable.)

Try this:
Start...

Perhaps new floppys use a slightly different circuit revision. XP perhaps looks for better PnP info or something...

Who would want a floppy drive anyway? They're good only for small files, able...

Try it and see. Hook everything up correctly, and the worst that can happen is it won't work.

Check all cables and make sure they're fully connected. (Simply press them in. If they don't move, they're completely on.) If it doesn't appear to do anything, I'd check the video card or the RAM.

You've got three CD-ROM drives? Why?

You can put a second drive on either chain (ide1 or ide2), but you have to remove one of the drives to do it. Unlike SCSI, IDE only supports 2 devices on a...

What exactly did you do? Did you simply take the drive out of the one computer, and put it in the other, with the original drive still there? That won't work. One drive has to be set as "slave."
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Check your BIOS and make sure both interfaces are enabled. (I'm assuming it's plugged in to provided ports on your motherboard.)

Also, you may want to add drives one at a time to see if a...