having trouble with harddrives

[Drogos]

ok this is whats happening i added 2 harddrives to this pc
the machine reads them normally but afther a while they both vanish
fom my computer and the only way to get them back is to unplug the pata cable and plug it back in and afther a while they are gone again
i downloaded seagate tools and ran it and said they are all fine i dont get it
it did this on another pc to not just this one if any one has any idea of how to correct this plz help


thanks in advance

 

[KSoD]

Hello,

Have you checked the jumper settings? Are they in RAW format? If so they need to be formatted to Fat32 or NTFS (Recommended) for Windows to recognize them.

Cheers,
Mak

 

[Drogos]

they are both formatted to FAT32 and the jumper is on cable selec

 

[KSoD]

Hello,

Have you tried a different cable? Have you checked to make sure your PSU is powerful enough to run all your parts?

Cheers,
Mak

 

[Drogos]

i posted on the upgrade part asking if my PSU was good enuff and i was told it should be fine everything else works is just those 2 harddrives that keep vanishing i have tried different cables and after a few hrs they vanish

 

[coolshmo]

How about hooking up 1 drive at a time?

 

[Drogos]

Well i had to remove one ,and now is fine. Looks like the other harddrive is really messed up, and keeps messing everything else along with it. So what i did is hook the good harddrive as slave and hooked a dvdrom as master on that same cable. Since i cant use the other harddrive ;Might as well hook something else that works ,and so at least i got an extra 100gb and a second dvdrom out this experiment.To bad i couldn't get my 200gb fixed i tried everything and all failed. No saving for that one i guess.

Well thanks all of you.