Recent content by AllanMc

Last thing i'd do is stick it in another machine as a slave and see if it's detected, if not contact the manufacturer of the HD and DVD drive and moan like hell, u may have to get a data recovery specialist to get the data back if you cant get the drive detected at all

You said you have installed XP onto another hard drive now. Can you set that harddrive up as master and slave the original harddrive to it, boot up and see if it's detected. Could be bad news if it isnt.

Oh the original HD isnt starting at all now?

Aye good point. But it works fine without the DVD drive, which would suggest a problem with the DVD drive as it worked fine before it arrived on the Scene. I take it the DVD drive is recognised ok then with the drives attached or not?

take all the drives out, set the DVD as master and turn it on see if the post detects it

What are the settings for each of the drives on IDE 1 (boot drive and DVD drive) IDE 2 (2 other drives) U've said stopped recognizing the Quantum HDD (fireball AS 60GB) Does it recognise it at all?