Added Hybrid SATA drive to ThinkCentre - does not recognize old IDE drive - Suggestions?

I added a 1TB Seagate Hybrid drive to my old ThinkCentre 808532U. I removed the jumper from the old IDE drive so it would be considered the secondary. I installed Windows 7 Professional 32 bit on the hybrid SATA. The old IDE had Windows XP. I want to use the old IDE drive as the secondary so I can access the data, pictures, etc. I do NOT want to boot XP. The system boots up fine with Windows 7. However, the system does not recognize the old IDE drive. I have gone into BIOS and changed the Parallel ATA to Secondary. The system still does not recognize the old IDE drive. Can someone provide recommendations? Thanks,Napp

I finally experimented enough that I found the solution! I tried putting all the IDE drives into Startup even though none showed any hardware assigned. I set Parallel ATA to Both. My machine would start up but not show the Logo screen or any screen for that matter. I put a Windows 7 install disk into the DVD ROM and got the Logo screen. I F1'd back into BIOS and suddenly two of the IDE entries in Startup were populated with the DVD drives. I set the order I wanted in Startup and saved the configuration. When Windows started it installed drivers for two devices. I looked into Computer and all the drives were listed!!!!!!!!!!! So now after several long nights I have my system configured properly for all the drives and all Windows 7 updates applied. I am waiting for delivery of a 256M graphics adapter and a gigabit ethernet adapter to see if I can increase performance. Time to sleep now..............

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