hard drive

[gvayl]

Hi,
My power connector to my HD had a red wire sticking out of it...Could that have killed my hd?

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Is your hard drive dead? The red cable is +5V, which your hard drive doesn't use, so I don't really see how, but I wouldn't say that it is impossible for it to kill your hd.
Tas.

 

[gvayl]

really...hem...well then I'm out of Ideas...it won't load? I set it as slave and I don't see it in my computer?

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Are you using another drive on the same cable? Is that drive set to master? Have you tried swapping out cables? Also, try another port on the motherboard....
Tas.

 

[gvayl]

ok...yea it was a master slave thing I guess...wierd. I thought I burned it since one of the wires was missing. It works now thanks tasburrfoot

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: gvayl
ok...yea it was a master slave thing I guess...wierd. I thought I burned it since one of the wires was missing. It works now thanks tasburrfoot

WOOHOOO!! A success! Awesome, glad to hear it.
Tas.

 

[pibb]

I'd try going into Bios and using autofind feature to rediscover whats connect to IDE, I must do this whenever I unhook/rehook in a drive.

nm, glad you got it fixed, but maybe some should keep this in mind, atleast this is how my MSI board operates

 

[JimPhelpsMI]

Hi, There is a little confusion in your answers. 3 1/2" hard drives use +5 for the logic and +12 for the platter motor. Laptop drives use only the +5 for both. If the +5 was missing from a 3 1/2" drive it would not work, but no damage would be done. Hope this helps, Jim