694T Pro: Hard Drive problem

Hey ho,
I'm swapping bits around in a couple of PCs atm. Pulled my 80 gig drives out of my aged P2-450 and stuck one into a P3-1000 running the 694T Pro motherboard. Currently that machine already has a 30g system drive and a 160g save drive (running at full capacity). I want to take the data off the 80g and stick it on the other drives as it's got all of my email etc. etc. I remember have problems getting the 160 to be recognised in the P3 and had to use a Seagate util to get it up to full capacity. The same goes for the 80g which was in the P2.
So, all of the drives come up fine in the Bios of the P3, no locking up. W2k boots perfectly. However, although the 80g drive is seen by W2k it says it needs formatting, which it does not. It's an NTFS drive, and it's set up as the secondary slave.
Pri master - 30g seagate
Pri slave - dvd drive
Sec master - 160g seagate
Sec slave - 80g seagate
Any ideas greatfully received. I know I've done this before.. like... twice, and can't for the hell of me remember how.
I cannot format the 80g and loose the data...
Cheers,
Mark.

Try jumpering them (Secondary IDE drives) to CS(Cable Select) mode.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661
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http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
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