I'm having some issues with my IDE hard drives. One is a Maxtor diamondmax plus 8 30gb and one is Fujitsu MPG3102AT 10 GB. I"m having issues when I hook them up to my IDE Cables on my motherboard. I'm using the same IDE cable as I do for my CD/DVD rom since it has a spare connector, likewise with the power connector. I conntec it all up nice and securly, (only using one of the drives at a time) and it fails to show the hard drives or my DVD rom drive... Any thoughts? I know they are not dead since they were working in another rig not long a ago, I just have files which I need to get off them. Any thoughts?
To help clear it up, I'll a use a diagram to explain how it's connected just so there is no confusion.
That is what my IDE cable looks like, With the Green/Grey/Black rectangles being the connectors. The green one is hooked up to my Motherboard, The grey one is free or hooked up to one of the IDE HDD's and the Black one is Hooked up to the DVD Drive.
Here are my PC specs:
Intel C2D E6300 @ 1.86 GHZ
1gb Samsung 533 mhz ram @ 5-4-4-12-16 :(
320 Western Digital HD in SATA2
Gigabyte 945PL-S3 mobo
Intel 945 Express Chipset
Pioneer 111-D Dvd Burner
nVidia Geforce 7600 GS 256 mb Graphics Card
19" Samsung Syncmaster 940BW monitor
Logitech DiNovo Laser Media Desktop
Videologic ZXR-750 surround sound system.