Godfodda
12-31-01, 05:58 PM
Wanted to pass this on so maybe someone would save themselves some $$$.
Several weeks ago I thought I had a dying HD as discussed in a previous thread here). Scrambled to install the backup drive and transfer over recent mails. Spent some bucks getting a new one sent overnight. While playing around inside the case installing the new drive and moving things around, I swapped the cables between the HD and CDR and thought nothing more of it.
Last weekend I tried to burn my usual backup with no luck. Ghost kept giving me errors. Clocked down, played with BIOS. Nothing worked. Finally gave up and went out for a new cable to see if that would help. Never got around to installing it, though.
Pulled out the "dead" drive tonight to test it on a new system (with the just-bought cable) and the damned thing is spinning along fine so far. I'm guessing that I did a bad job of wrapping the IDE cables in my other case. I used the W shape and wrapped them in electrical tape. Apparently it was too tight or something as has partially broken some of the conductors. This is assumption, but I think it's probably the right assumption.
Two morals to the story: :)
Careful how you wrap your IDE cables, and
Don't throw the drive out until you test it on something else.
Several weeks ago I thought I had a dying HD as discussed in a previous thread here). Scrambled to install the backup drive and transfer over recent mails. Spent some bucks getting a new one sent overnight. While playing around inside the case installing the new drive and moving things around, I swapped the cables between the HD and CDR and thought nothing more of it.
Last weekend I tried to burn my usual backup with no luck. Ghost kept giving me errors. Clocked down, played with BIOS. Nothing worked. Finally gave up and went out for a new cable to see if that would help. Never got around to installing it, though.
Pulled out the "dead" drive tonight to test it on a new system (with the just-bought cable) and the damned thing is spinning along fine so far. I'm guessing that I did a bad job of wrapping the IDE cables in my other case. I used the W shape and wrapped them in electrical tape. Apparently it was too tight or something as has partially broken some of the conductors. This is assumption, but I think it's probably the right assumption.
Two morals to the story: :)
Careful how you wrap your IDE cables, and
Don't throw the drive out until you test it on something else.