Help!!

I have been trying to get 2 hard drives to be visible to my system.  I have
a celeron 360, WinME, 1 20G Maxtor drive and a drive that came with the
computer (6 G)...It was suggested by someone on the list that I may have a
problem having two drives on the same IDE cable and to have one cable with
CD and Hard Drive, the other IDE with CDRW and other HD.  I tried that and
was careful with master/slave arrangement.

It didn't work...In fact it only gave me my 6G HD (which is really not the
drive I need (It doesn't have all of my data on it!)

So, I tried to go back to the way it was...I put both CD drives on one IDE
and then the two HDs on the other.  Still didn't get back to the way it was.
So, I disconnected the HD (6 Gig) that I didn't really want and only had one
drive on the IDE.  The drive is a Maxtor and therefore is not what windows
thinks is "ATAPI compatible"  (whatever that means.)  I've tried to use the
Maxtor boot disk to run fdisk and it will only let me format the disk...(it
has over 10 G of stuff on it!).  And, using a WinME boot disk doesn't work
because it doesn't find the Maxtor drive ("no fixed disk present" error
message.

Is there any hope getting all of my drive and the info on the drive back??

I am feeling hopeless!

Please help and TIA
marshall

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