I need help with a ide hard drive!

Okay, so i backed up important data onto my ide harddrive, it worked , i reformated my sata hdd, i was messing around with 2 other ide hdd’s i got and i smelled somethingfunny, well ya i put my backup ide and it didnt read, it flashs’s green that its on and working, but my pc is not reading it.. i need major help.. cant afford to lose these files!
Answer #1
Take the hard drive out and have a close look at the bottom of the HD…See if the circuit board have any visible burns on it…
Answer #2
my eye vision is too bad for that lol
Answer #3
Put you graces on…And look around the house…See if you can find a magnifying class…
Answer #4
Plug it in, when you turn on the computer, see if it makes a clicking sound. If you do hear that, the HDD might be defective. If you dont, at least you can rule out that it has gone bad physically.
Do you have another one with an operating system installed in the HDD? If so, connect the working one, making it the master HDD and make the one you need a slave. If you able to boot up with the spare HDD, try running a CHKDSK /F /R on the defective disk; that’s if it can read it that way.
One other thing…sometimes computers have two (2) IDE connections in the motherboard. Try disabling the IDE1 and connecting the HDD to IDE2.
Answer #5
No clicking sound, theres a lil green light, it flash’s green , so ya i can rule out it works
It is my slave hdd but it says something about not reading the ide slave drive .. and i hit f1 adn continue onto my main hdd i got 2 , 1 goes into my dvd drive and 2nd into the hdd.
Answer #6
So you have two IDE connector/outlets…however you wanna call them….
Try taking out the dvd drive and testing it that way.
Answer #7
i tried, i even put my other cd drive i took out and it read fine with both cables..
Answer #8
hhmmm…this is a toughy…
So it read all the other HDDs but just not that one?
Answer #9
so you tried the problem drive on it’s own cable and no joy ?
you’ve disconnected all CD/DVD drives
with each hard drive on a separate cable
you try swapping the master/slave jumpers ?
got another PC you can try it on ?
Answer #10
Yep edwood, i do, but its all sata!! omg … lol
Answer #11
i smelled somethingfunny
you did not have the problem drive connected when this happened ?
you have any IDE USB drives ?
Answer #12
no it was off, no i dont.
Answer #13
you try a bios reset ?
Answer #14
look at the 80 pin socket on the ide drive for missing bent or pushed back (shorter pins ) may be 1 missing for orientation of plug check its the same as the blanked pin in socket on 80 pin cable reset bios to default might help ?
Answer #15
Yes, like says, also check out the pins on the power connector..