As sleepsalot says, check the drive is in disk management, which can be found in Administative tools-Computer Management.
If it is not formatted you can do this from the Disk Management console.
Drive have been formated with windows XP Pro SP 1 and I checked disk management. It didn't register over there either. Is there any kind of utilities to read the data?
Just for the record, the 48 bit LBA size related issues only limited the 'available' drive size; it did not make the drive invisible to disk management.
Thanks for all your replies, appreciate it. The drive is 200 GB. It was working a few weeks ago until I imported outlook message rules and then it stopped working. It might be the registry so I tried to slave it, but the BIOS did not even recognize it anymore. So I attached it as external drive using USB connection, the 'safely remove hardware' window sees it as Maxtor drive but 'my computer' cannot register it as a drive. Ran Maxtor utilities but to no avail. Do you all think my drive is fried?
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