Help please!

[Danman]

I just got a new 80G Maxtor and have two old drives I have important data on. I got one of them working, the Quantum but my old 20G Maxtor will not turn and that is what has everything on it! It won't even power on for some reason and won't recongize under the BIOS. It worked an hour before I install the new 80giger. The wierd thing is that it seems that the power cable to it just slides in a little too easy.............any comments on it?

 

[oLLie]

try a diff power cable... double check jumper settings?

 

[gogeeta13]

Have you played CS lately, I think you may have gotten hacked.

 

[Danman]

<< Have you played CS lately, I think you may have gotten hacked. >>



Shut the hell up, this isn't funny. :|

 

[Danman]

Yes, I did, about 4 different ones.

 

[DanFungus]

do you have the right settings on the Drives....master and slaves, or cable select? sometimes the cable decides, so oyu put the jumper thingy on CS for Cable Select. (MA for Master, SL for slave--I believe)

 

[Danman]

<< do you have the right settings on the Drives....master and slaves, or cable select? sometimes the cable decides, so oyu put the jumper thingy on CS for Cable Select. (MA for Master, SL for slave--I believe) >>



Yes I do, they are all set right, the 80 as master and the 20 as slave............

 

[DanFungus]

flash BIOS? It had said in a Maxtor paper that I got when I got a 40GB drive that it a HDD is over 37GB or something around that, then the computer might not see it.....worth a try.
or try putting 20 as master (if was what it was at before) and 80 as slave?

 

[Geekbabe]

1st thing you need to do is to find pout if the old drive is still working, disconnect the new maxtor and put the old drive in alone, watch/listen to see if the drive spins up or bios recognises it

 

[Danman]

Tried that already..............I don't see why it would just stop from powering on.

 

[gogeeta13]

Try it in another computer

 

[Geekbabe]

<< Tried that already..............I don't see why it would just stop from powering on. >>




drives die, it is possible you gave it a thump while moving drives around and installing the new drive ?

 

[Maetryx]

Give it power only, no ribbon cable. If it doesn't even spin then, I don't think there is much hope.

 

[Danman]

<< Try it in another computer >>



Gonna go try that tommorow, that is my last resort. All the data can be replaced........but now I have to RMA this hard drive. This really blows.

 

[Spikesoldier]

Same problem with my old maxtor drive. I lost ~40gigs of valueable data on that. IBM hasnt failed me...yet

 

[Danman]

<< Same problem with my old maxtor drive. I lost ~40gigs of valueable data on that. IBM hasnt failed me...yet >>



That isn't good......I just bought a 80G Maxtor 7200 RPM Drive. :Q

 

[Hamburgerpimp]

I almost lost all data on a 80gig Maxtor. Easy Data Recovery got most of it except pics and music. Now I run all SCSI. Never fails. Sorry to hear your situation. Burning data to CDs is the only real safe way of backing up data these days.