- Rod Speed -
> Looks like some hardware problem with the secondary
> master drive, either the cable or the power connector.

- Nehmo -
Power. When I switch power connectors and use one coming off the set
going to the working CD drive, the hard drive works and I can boot
Windows. The C drive and the 160 GB drive weren't getting power.

I realized the drive wasn't powering up when I held it in my hand and I
didn't feel the gyro sensation and vibration.

(I made a mistake when I was describing the problem. When I was
navigating using the command prompt, something I'm not used to, I was
actually navigating in the working 80 GB drive - not the C drive as I
had thought. A lot of the file tree is the same.)

Anyway, the bad power lines go directly to the power supply - there's no
possibly-faulty connector-pair in the path. There's just two terminal
connectors on the lines and both don't work. So something must broke (a
connection?) in the power supply.

I could add a jumper or ditch the power supply.

Actually, I haven't yet returned the previous C drive back to its former
place. I still have the 15 GB drive (the spare one I had on a shelf)
working as the boot/system drive. I'm now updating all the software on
it so it'll be ready for the next emergency.

I haven't got the volt meter out yet either. But as long as I had things
working, I thought I'd post before I did anything else.

Thank you, everybody.
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