IDE Drive Not Recognized

[Sevion]

Recently, I moved my IDE drive from one PC to another. Now, the IDE drive does not work. It's not recognized anywhere. I can hear the drive spinning, so I know it's powered. I have the IDE cable plugged in. It's just not showing up anywhere. And when I plugged the HDD back into the old PC, it didn't show up either... Anyone care to shed some light?

 

[Slapshot136]

is it the only thing connected to the IDE ribbon? if so, is the jumper set to "master"?

(some cd/dvd drives are also connected via IDE, in that case I would suggest removing it temporarily and doing the above, and then if it works try adding in the CD/DVD drive as "slave")

 

[Sevion]

It is the only thing connected to the IDE ribbon, yes. And yes, it is set to Master. My DVD Burner is connected via SATA.

 

[Slapshot136]

well im afraid I don't know then, chances are it is broken if it doesn't work in the PC that you originally had it in anymore.. you didn't try "hot swapping" it by any chance, did you? (as in moving it while the computer was turned on)

 

[sqrage]

Maybe the boot sectors are messed up. Not sure how you'd go about fixing it.

 

[Sevion]

well im afraid I don't know then, chances are it is broken if it doesn't work in the PC that you originally had it in anymore.. you didn't try "hot swapping" it by any chance, did you? (as in moving it while the computer was turned on)

No. I turned off the PC and turned off the PSU before disconnecting. I'm not that stupid -_-'

Either way, I'm going to turn this drive into something else.

I ordered a Western Digital Black Caviar 750GB HDD.

 

[sqrage]

Good choice. :thup:

 

[Sevion]

Good choice. :thup:

:thup: Western Digital for life!

http://hackedgadgets.com/2006/04/25/top-5-uses-for-a-dead-hard-drive/3/

My new HDD Clock?

 

[shadowmapper]

Being that it's a HD (containing your precious data) I'm going to assume your probably willing to put a little time into seeing if it's salvageable. Why don't you try stripping all device connections (optical drives, hard drives) and set the suspect hard drive to auto-select by pulling the jumper out. Even if it's not bootable, your bios should still recognize the drive. Then you can go forward on the deduction that it's a configuration error. Try the same thing with the jumper set to master (f#*& it, try slave too, stranger things have happened). Alternatively, you might just try pulling the jumpers and sticking it back in your new system on auto-select, if the other devices are SATA.

FYI when you said it's 'not showing up anywhere', I assumed you were including in the system bios, and that this is not just an issue of the drive not being bootable as some people have kind of responded on.

 

[kingkingyyk3]

Hmm, recently WD is not doing well with their drive. Get Samsung SpinPoint F3, cheaper, faster, lower power consuming, cooler and quieter.