Hard Drive Dissapeared

I have a dual 867 with a 60 GB and a 160 GB hard drive. The 160GB had OS9 and OSX both. I was in OS9 today and was working on getting my DSL working. When I restarted, the computer booted up in OSX on the 60GB hard drive and the other one never showed up on the desktop. I can see the drive in Disk First Aid but no volumes and I can do anything but reformat the drive. I ran the Drive Genius Demo and there are no bad sectors. I also ran the Data Rescue II and it seems like all my files are still there. Please help. I am not going to pay $100 for a program to recover my disk but I don't want to reformat it unless I ablsolutely have to.

Hi-
Welcome to Discussions!
It's not exactly clear what you are saying, but, I assume you want to select the 160gb drive for start up?
Also, you can see the drive in disk repair, but you can or can't repair it?
For now, stop messing around with demos and such. If you can't select the drive, demos and data recovery won't help, and could make things worse.
Check your System Preferences/Startup Disk, and see if the desired drive can be selected.
Also, on restart, hold down the option key, and select the drive from the options.
If the above fail to select your disk, in the following order:
-Try a different User account
-Startup in Safe Mode, and run Disk Utility
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
-Startup from your OS install disk, and run Disk Utility
If you can't start in safe mode, or from install disk,
-Startup in single user mode, and run fsck:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
If those don't help, and your data is worth more than $100, buy DiskWarrior.
If not,.........post back, please.
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