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SOLVED !!! Using my friend, Google, I found: "Ranish Partition Manager" Version 2.40 at www.ranish.com It reported the Partition Type for the Maxtor drive as "Unknown," so I had it change the Partition Type to Windows FAT-32, and voila, it now has a drive letter! Must be that GoBack altered...

As previously indicated, the BIOS, Device Mgr and Disk Mgr all see the drive. It's identified and reported as health & active, but has no drive-letter assigned (and I'm not being given the option to do that). The only option I'm being given is Delete Partition! :excl:

-> Just remembered... ...that I was using GoBack with my HP PC, (I'm no longer using it with my Dell)... Could that possibly be the problem? :eekers:

Sorry for not getting back yesterday, but I was sick as a dog (something I ate)! As advised, I went into Disk Management and the Maxtor drive shows up as healthy & active, but no drive letter is assigned... When I right-click on the drive the abilitity to change the drive letter is...

Pradeep~ Thanks for the tip. Hopefully, it's that simple a solution because I even tried slaving it on the second IDE cable and got the very same result. :excl: I'm way too tired right now, so I'll try that tomorrow and report back.

Background: My previous PC was an HP Pavilion running Win98. The HP's HDD is a Maxtor ATA/66 40GB (model 9409BU8) with FAT32 format. The HP is no longer intact as I have scrounged parts from it for my son's PC, but I still have the Maxtor drive and need to retrieve some data files on it. So...

No problemo... while I need an 8" span beween device connectors, I do not need that long a cable!

Now that's very interesting. I never thought of doing that. :idea:

No arguing about that... No disrespect intended, but I just can't buy this (yet)! But as I indicated, on the cable in question in my case, the use of only one device will be requested at any given time!

Yup, I'm new here (thanks for the welcome mat)... Ya know, I've heard that before - i.e., sharing the IDE cable between a hard drive and an optical device will slow access to the hard drive. However, I don't see why that should be (especially with late model devices). :?: Besides which...

Yeah, I thought about adding an ATA100 card as a last resort. Since I don't really need additional IDE channels, I'd much prefer getting the right cable (less cost). :wink:

The distance between the master and slave connectors on the IDE cables that I have (or have ever seen) is only about 4" (or so)... I need a master-slave span of about 8" in order to connect a secondary master HDD and a slave DVD-RW in my comp's case. :roll: Can you guys please suggest some...