Windows wont see Maxtor drive

Need some help, ive installed XP sp2 {NTFS} on Seagate Sata drive no probs, then i added the Maxtor pata drive to IDE 1 in master, bios sees it, drive manager in xp sees it but windows wont, tried to assign and change drive letter but it wont let me,i right click and it gives the option of changing to dynamic drive, what on earth is dynamic drive i didnt want to risk it because it has my back up info on it from millennium {fat 32} rebooted and added drive to raid with Seagate and when you exit raid bios it stop and says disk read error, i tried it in slave mode still wont see it, how do you get xp to see a pata drive? help!!

1. Since you have the drive on the middle connector of the cable it should be jumpered as slave, not master.
2. In XP a dynamic drive is another way of saying software raid drive. Don't do it as it can't be reverted back without uninstalling and formatting.
3. You should be able to do as suggested using the disk management console to reassign it's drive letter once you've jumpered it as slave while it's still on the middle connector of the cable.
4. You haven't stated if the sata drive is setup in a raid configuration or if you're using it as a standard drive.
5. Maybe moving it to the secondary ide controller would allow XP to see it properly and allow you to pull all you important info off it then you could format it and use it as a archive or backup drive.

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