need hard drive help asap

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nukeman8

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Just unplugged my hard drive to try and get an old hard drive working as slave
however when i plugged it all back in my pc no longer detects my hard drive either of them.
comes up the boot disk error please enter blah blah

anyone got any idea why my pc has certainly decided not to see my hard drive?
 
Do you have a OS installed on the new hard drive? If not the PC cant boot to a RAW format drive. You will have to hook up the new one as the slave and leave the old one as the master so that you can use the new one.

If you want to use the new one you will have to format it and install Windows on it to use it.
 
yup and tried 3 different hard drives now, none of them appear in bios (i cant be 100% they work thou as i havent a clue where they came from)
 
Go back to your original configuration. Does it show up then?
 
nope i unplugged the second hard drive and went back to my oringal hard drive but bios wont detect it now
Its happened to me before i think and i just brought a new hard drive but surely the hard drive aint at fault
 
well i be ****, yet faulty ide cable
do ide's break alot then? i was under the impression they were fairly sturdy
 
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