Brian, I assume you've considered trying the drive in another PC? Or trying another drive in your own unit?  Or booting up your rig from floppy to see what sort of action occurs?
Can you get into the BIOS?  What does an Auto-detect of the drives reveal?

Ian Porter
Computer Guys
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Brian L. Sanburn 
  To: [log in to unmask] 
  Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 11:41 AM
  Subject: [PCBUILD] Have I Killed My HD?


  Good afternoon everyone...

      It appears that I've short-circuited my HD.

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