Nehmo Sergheyev wrote in message
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That's my plan.

That'd normally work fine.

You have been dancing on those graves tho...

Now the drive doesn't show up at all. It doesn't show up
in that BIOS screen that pops up before Windows starts,
and it doesn't show up anywhere else either.

I tried replacing the new Belkin round cable with
the Maxtor-provided ATA cable, but still nothing.

That'd normally be due to either the jumpering being
wrong or no AUTO drive type in the cmos drive table.

The new cable should be a cable select cable,
so just jumper the drives as cable select and
make sure you do have the motherboard end of
the cable plugged into the motherboard connector.

Naturally, I made sure the cables were securely attached.
I can feel the motor running so it must be getting power.

The Maxtor literature says with certain BIOS types, you have
to set it to highlight the IDE/HDD hard drives options and press
Enter. I don't see such an option in my BIOS, and anyway,
I didn't need to do that the other times I installed this drive.

Yeah, the Maxtor documentation does leave quite a bit to be desired.

Other than not recognizing the new HD, the computer is working fine.

Right now, I'm thinking I should take it back to Best Buy
and replace it with a different brand. It's still under 14 days.

It cant be the cable, you're getting the
same effect with two different cables.