Solved Possibly fried HDD with wrong jumper pin selection help needed please

[sheffieldyorky]

I think that I may have inserted the jumper pins in my Seagate Barracuda 500gb IDE in the wrong position.
Should the jumper pins be in cable select or master?
On the written guide label it shows cable select AND master on slave off
The DVD is on its own ribbon cable going into it's own IDE port on the motherboard IDE 2
The HDD shows on the motherboard as IDE 1
With me possibly inserting pins in the wrong order will I have fried the HDD.
If so what do you recommend as recovery software and which pin order should it be
The are only two ribbon cables DVD & HDD.
I look forward to your comments
Kind regards
Tony

 

[Bree]

...With me possibly inserting pins in the wrong order will I have fried the HDD.

Wow, it's been a long time since I've worked with IDE drives. No, a jumper in the wrong position shouldn't 'fry' the drive, it just means it won't work untill the jumper is corrected. These manuals may help....

Seagate manual: https://www.seagate.com/support/disc/iguides/ata/100402370a.pdf

Asus P5E3 manual:

It appears that when using a single drive on the cable, either CS or Master should work....

                 Drive jumper setting        Mode of device(s)   Cable connector 

 Single device   Cable-Select or Master              -            Black

Asus P5E3 Premium/WiFi-AP@n User Manual | Page 54 / 200

 

[sheffieldyorky]

IDE Problem Now solved

Hi there Bree
Many thanks for contributing to my thread.
The background to this I acquired this desktop and in transporting something became dislodged I could hear something rattling as I drove along the motorway I did not / could not stop, taking the idea there would be nothing that I could do till I got back.
So when I eventually did get back I took off the side of the desktop and found the HDD on the bottom of the case and the ribbon dangling and believe or not I found on the motherboard a black jumper which I took to have originated from the HDD.
Now after your valuable advice I find that I have a copy of XP DEEP JOY
Once again many thanks to all