(Recap of story:
I had physical damage to the m-board which was attached to a 80 GB HD.
I got a new m-board, but with it I couldn't see my 80 HD. I installed
an old 15 GB HD I had on a shelf for such emergencies. WinXP worked
off the 15 after a repair install. I installed the 80 as a slave (I
thought I installed it properly) but I couldn't read it, nor could I
repair-install WinXP on it. I called MS, and the tech instructed me to
run CHKDSK /f . I still couldn't read, and the XP setup wanted me to
format the 80. I tried data recovery software of various types first
because the formatting would destroy all my data on the 80.)

Anyway, I discovered my problem with the 80 GB HD. When I was
jumpering it I only looked briefly at the large-sheet Western Digital
instructions that came with the HD. I used the slave jumpering
configuration.

Unfortunately, I was looking at the wrong side of the instruction
sheet. I was looking at the Macintosh side. The jumpering for regular
IBM clones is different. The way I set the jumper was incorrect for my
computer.

For someone familiar with installing drives, this would have been an
easy mistake to catch. Harry Ohrn did indeed ask if I had the drive
jumpered correctly. I answered and described how I had it jumpered,
but nobody noticed I was doing it wrong.

I now can see all my old data, and WinXP is running properly.

Links to the thread:
http://snipurl.com/89b8

http://www.google.com/groups?hl=en&l...3Dne hmo%2Bhd

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