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Originally posted by Sinkalip
A little background, please?

Did this just occur out of the blue or where you doing something in there? ]

Well I was installing a new windows server on the drive that's now unavailable but nothing as far as hardware is involved

If you've added either drive, make sure the pin1 is connected to the red cable on the ribbon. It is sometimes numbered on the back of the drive (the circuit board, or PCB) where the IDE connector is located. If not, look for the "square" pin on the IDE connector of the pcb. ]

Well judging from the final diagnostics I posted this there is a problem of an interface cable not being connected to the connector. The problem for me is that I am not that familiar with the hardware sort of things so I would be gratefull for the link for the visual represantation of what is involved.

/EDIT The 'shunt' (? Must be the real word for it) is to set one drive as the Master, and one as slave. Most drives even have a diagram of how to set them up on the top of the drive. When you have only one drive, it's really not a problem. If you add a HD and don't set the drives, it could cause problems, I imagine

Sorry, It's been a long time since I needed two HD's.

I am going to study this.