Mike's Custom Woodworking wrote:
>
> Russell,
>  The group might also like to know about the diagnostic program on WD's
> website.It claims to test most brands of hard drives and is free.

>  I could not get either to work on this machine.


   So it's probably toast. But to be sure try another ribbon cable. They
rarely fail, but I've seen a few go bad and it's one one of the first
things I try on a suspect hard drive. Bringing another working drive to
that system is also a good way to check to see where the problem lies.
Can you still autodetect the drive in CMOS or see it while running
fdisk.exe (do the display drive info option)?

Later,


Russell Smith
Edtech Consultant, Journalist
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