"Rod Speed" wrote in message


Swap your ide cables over, see what happens.
If it doesn't boot get a new ide cable.

Very unlikely indeed that BOTH cables would go bad
at once with BOTH secondary drives not being seen.

Who said anything about BOTH cables going bad?
You put the hdd ide cable on the cds, and the cd cable on the hdd. If it
boots ok the cd cable is working ok, if you didn't have an ide cable on
the hdd how can you test the cd ide cable?
What are you suggesting ?

Check your hardware devices, see if they are still listed and enabled.

Very unlikely indeed that BOTH secondary drives wouldnt
be enabled. If they arent visible they likely wont be listed.

Still check to see if they are there. BOTH OF THEM.

Apart from trying to make a mockery of my suggested answers which he should
try out, what exactly did you add to the answer? bugger all as far as i
can see

db