Help with Installing two hard drives

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  1. DocBrown
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    Is there more than one power cable from the PSU to try ? Can you hear if the IDE spins from power ON ?
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  3. octapuss1
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    both have little raised notches. I have switch both out a couple of times.
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  4. octapuss1
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    When i turn it on, i can feel the spinning....and i have tried several of the power outlets
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    ok, let's try connecting to the Black IDE connector on MB with the HD jumper OFF so it sees it as a slave drive. Maybe the blue IDE connector has gone bad
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    no luck.
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    are you powering OFF the computer & re-booting on each of these atempts ?
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  10. octapuss1
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    yes. full reboot.

    im getting worried i am running out of options here.

    you are a HUGE! help .
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  11. octapuss1
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    ok something just changed here. I changed IDE configuration to Parallel ATA. the Primary IDE Master is showing the original HD now. Small change.
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  12. DocBrown
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    octapuss1 said:
    yes. full reboot.

    im getting worried i am running out of options here.

    you are a HUGE! help .

    I think that I have just about tried everything I have done in the past with HD's.

    One of my favorite HD testing gadgets is a USB Tri-Head Adapter

    It can test IDE full size HD's & Laptop Hd's & SATA HD's
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    octapuss1 said:
    ok something just changed here. I changed IDE configuration to Parallel ATA. the Primary IDE Master is showing the original HD now. Small change.
    Ok can you see it in windows Disk Management ?
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