text: i am trying to mount a dual boot(linux/windows)? i am trying to mount a dual boot(linux/windows) dell laptop internal ide (ibm) 20 gig hard disk on my dell precision desktop (wind2k) using a ide to usb cable.(sabrent).  i can see my drive in the device manager under disk drives, it kwon exactly my disk id (ic25t048 atda05-0 usb device. but when it wont show in the disk management window.  how can i mount this drive on my pc??? start with a wondows based pc and then load a windows friendly version of unix (linux red hat), but never the other way around.  unix machines run completely different hardware and if you tried that it just wouldn't work at all.