Hi,

It sounds to me like perhaps the hard drive has more serious problems.
Perhaps it is drawing too much current (power) causing the computer to trip
off. It could simply be that the power supply in the computer you are
putting it in is too small for an extra hard driver.

It is also possible that the IDE port on the drive is bad and scrambling or
pulling some of the lines either high or low, making it so that the main
drive cannot be read properly.

To avoid the whole master/slave and shared cable issue, try seeing if your
computer has two IDE ports (many newer computer with SATA ports no longer
have two IDE ports, but if yours is more than a couple years old, it
should). Even if it is currently used for a CDROM drive, disconnect it and
hook it to the drive instead. It will not matter if it is master or slave as
long as you aren't sharing the cable.

Also, make sure your power supply is at least 350 to 400W to make sure it
has enough power to handle two hard drives.

Russ Poffenberger
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Subject: [PCBUILD] Hard drive help-round 2


I tried switching jumpers around to make sure one drive was designated
master and the other slave and I got the same result. 

As soon as I turn my computer on, it pops off. I tried unhooking the master
hard drive, moved the jumper to designate the new(old/slave) drive as
master, hooked the cables and power to it only and tried to boot, still same
thing, powers on, tried to boot, powers off. 

I switched the power connectors around just in case it was the one connected
to the slave drive--same result.

Is there anything else I can do to recover the data from this harddrive ?


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