Hard drive will not boot now

[Milo]

does anyone know how to fix a boot problem with a 2000 hard drive. It use to boot, then it was truned on with the hard drive controller being unpluged ( from shipping) and now it will not boot. When I run the hd tools off of the floopy drive, It can't even find the Hard drive. any help would be great. thanks

[elendil]

It sounds like the cable is not entirely plugged in or plugged in wrongly. It is, afaik, possible to plug in the wrong way or a bit to the left or right so that not all pins are connected. At least it is with my a4k.

Sincerely,

-Kenneth Straarup.

[pioneer]

Is the hard drive controller card a Dataflyer? If it is you need a couple of files on the drive. If not, what is it?

[Milo]

The controler is a trumpcard pro- pcb1000
the hard drive is a quantum 120s. the conections are in and seem right. I've tried reseating the card in different slots with no results. I think the card is good because when I place the auto boot jumper from yes to no, it doesn't even try to boot like it does when it is on yes.

[Argo]

Does the drive spin up?

[Milo]

Yes it spins severl times like it is trying to get going. the little hd light even goes on and off with the spinning. It finnaly gives up and displays a screen that implys for you to insert a disk.

[Argo]

So, it spins up or starts to then stops.   IE. the drive makes noise then stops, it then sounds and feels powered off,  is that correct?

Try a another cable if you have one.

[Brian]

I had a simular thing happening to me, my problem was that the drive didn't get enough power so you could also try a different powercable and/or PSU.

Could also be a bad drive... older drives have a tendancy to break when moved around too much.