HELP!!!!!Hard Drives not recognised!

[edjam]

Hi. A routine procedure has turned into a nightmare. This morning I installed rounded IDE cables for all my IDE drives. No problem. I started the computer up and things seemed quite slow, but Windows XP loaded up.

I restarted the computer, and this is where the problems started.

The BIOS is only recognising the DVD ROM and CDRW, my hard drive is not being recognised. Further to this, I have a Maxtor hdd on a Promie IDE controller card which also cannot be accessed all of a sudden.

I have checked all the jumpers for the drives and reattached all the cables, yet the hard drives are still not recognised.

When i just tried one IDE channel with the DVD ROM and CDRW as master and slave respectively, only the DVD ROM is recognised.

I have accessed both the hard drives on another PC which proves that they are at least operational.

I am really stuck as what to do, I have no idea what might be wrong now. PLEASE HELP!!! Thanks

 

[JknowWhat]

Just curious...did you check to see if you bent any pins while installing the new round cables?

 

[edjam]

nope, dont think I did.....thx for suggesting tho.

 

[billyjak]

My Abit board did not like my rounded cables either.
I went back to stock cables and alls fine.
So manufacturers do not make quality rounded cables.

 

[brucehao]

Yeah, do your stock cables still work? If they do, then you might have picked up defective cables.

 

[edjam]

Nope they dont seem to change anything, just thinking that the cables may have been defective...and that they have damaged my board.