thanks alot man- you the man. you really help me. cant figure out how i got the drive to be reconized. my first Motherboard (before this new one that i used old drive in)stopped working. and i found two viruses on old drive, but only after it was reconized. do you think the windows cd had something to do with it, when i reinstalled the drivers( but it was already showing in bios, and disk manager- just not in My Computer?, and no hardware issues in device manager? any way this is what i knew could happen with these drives, and we worked it out.
so thanks again for the info BOB- the last bit totally helped. i'ld like to know what you think allowed the drive to be reconized, or was it a quirky thing. thanks again.

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