I am installing a 750gb Seagate IDE Hard Drive in a Dell Dimension 4600, At the moment I have two Maxtor 300gb IDE Diamondmax 10's in there, the plan is to transfer all data to the new one with a new 150gb of space.

I am goign to use Norton Ghost to transfer the data.

When I put the 750 in position 2 and the 300 with xp on it in position 1 on the ribbon cable (they are both on cable select jumper setting) the pc does not recognise either drive, . If I just connect the 300 on its own the pc recognises it, when i just connect the 750 the pc recognises it, but put them both on the cable and it cant find anything.

If there is a genius out there who knows what the problem is please give me your divine wisdom. ???

The drives are Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB Hard Drive ATA/133

Part #: 6B300R0

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750 GB ATA 100 Internal Hard Drive

Part #: ST3750640A

Hi jamans, welcome to itsallPC

Have you updated your BIOS recently? This is really important when it comes to new technologies like this.

Did you happen to notice which position the HDDs would being detected in individually? If they're both being detected as Primary Master for example, you have a problem. It might be well worth manually setting their IDE channel positions.

I haven't updated the bios recently.

By contantly swapping the drives I have manged to do it by connecting the new 750 drive to the secondary channel and the old 300's to teh primary, Installing a new install of XP on the new drive and then just transferring all the data manually. Took me 4 days but I have been working a lot of hours as well.

thanks for the help.