ThinkTankInk

I recently had some problems with my PSU which I managed to resolve this morning. Now, however, I when I boot up my PC, it doesn't recognise the slave HDD in the BIOS or Windows.

I have an 80Gig for the master which has a partition on it for system restores (it's a Compaq) and I put my own 120Gig in as the slave drive a few years ago.
The first time I saw it wasn't working was when I took it to a friend's house to try and fix my previous PSU problem. When it booted up I noticed the slave drive wasn't recognised, but as my PC was knackered anyway I thought not much of it at the time.

So far I have checked, double-checked and triple-checked the IDE cable is plugged in correctly, tried it on both IDE cables (slave to master HD and master DVD drive), tried several power connection thingies and also made sure the jumper settings were correct.
On this particular drive (Samsung, but I forgot the model number), the settings for slave is no jumper at all, so it's not like it fell out or anything.

As my last problem was PSU related, could it be that it shorted my harddrive or something? That "back-up" drive has a lot of important stuff on it and if I can't get the drive working again, I'd much appreciate some advice as to how I might get the data recovered from it.

Thanks.