Hi I have Problems Repairing the hard Disk Drive and now it doesn't work.
Heres the facts: My harddisk does not move (spins) when the data string (the very wide one (forgotin the name :D) that ataaches the mother board)
But when i take it off with only the power supply coard it spins !? :confused:






Oh just asking anybody plays Counter Strike?
If do tell me good severs.:p

Hello BOB THE BULIDER,

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In what ways have you tried repairing the Hard Disk Drive?

Do you mean the IDE cable (data string?) that connects your Harddrive to the Motherboard?

Well, let's see - first of all, what brand of hard drive do you have?

Next, is it an older-model EIDE or an up-to-date ATA-100/ATA-133?

After that, what kind of drive cable do you have attached to that hard drive? For ATA-100/ATA-133 drives, you need an 80-wire ATA-100 cable, which is immediately recognizable from the color-coded connectors at either end and the much greater number of plastic-coated wires in the cable. If you're trying to use an old-style IDE cable with a new ATA drive, you're going to get very slow performance.

It can also simply be that your drive cable has gone bad, in which case you will have to buy a new one.

You should also check your connectors again to make sure they're attached correctly. If you're using an ATA-100 drive cable, the blue end needs to be seated firmly in the blue EIDE slot on the motherboard and the black end needs to be seated firmly in the hard drive (I assume you have only one hard drive; it should be set to master).

And speaking of setting to master...check the jumpers on your hard drive. Make sure that the drive is correctly set up.

-Joe-

What I mean that it spins is it is working.

The Cable is New.

Any way. The Hard Disk is a IBM Deskstar (website:www.ibm.com/harddrive)

Model for ATA/IDE.

Not Sure about the cable (the one to HD to Mother Board).

Just tell u what it says: AWM 30AWG VW-1 105*C 150V AWM I A FT1

The Computer is a PIII 500MHz INTEL
Window ME

As I said before as above it works with just the POWER SUPPLY cord it makes the usual sounds and spins (works). But after the HD to Mother Board (can I just say M-B?)cord. and turn the computer on all phiscal movements stop (clicking, spining, vibrating and etc).

Oh it all happend because of a direct hit (no lighting rod either!) from a lighting and then the power supply was toast. (What really happened is that the coppar wires in the power supply melted)
So we had to change the power supply.

I do not know how to change it in to a MASTER drive.
Hope its good enuoth

The labeling on the hard drive will tell you how to set the jumpers for Master. Unfortunetly your post isn't very clear but I if I read it correctly it sounds like the HD controller on the mobo could be fubarred.

Lightning strike??? I hate to say this, but I'm afraid that it could end up being that _both_ your hard drive and your motherboard are toast. You can try getting another hard drive from somewhere to test the motherboard, but candidly, I'd say that your best option right now is to replace both those components.

-Joe-

OK.....

Ummm.
Well it is just that it can't send data through the IDE cable not only that when I tried REMOVING the cable (IDE). It works (PHISCALY) but it seems that the Mother Board seems to cut the power going to the HD.

What are Jumpers?

If the HDD is just the way it was prior to the electrical storm, don't worry about it.

The jumpers are small plastic coated electrical contacts that short or connect the proper pins together on things such as hard-drives, motherboards and CD-ROMs to set voltages properly for whatever processor (in the case of mobo's) you have. And to set the primary's and secondary's 'roles' for location on IDE cables (primary for the end of the cable, secondary for the middle).

Can you try it in another pc? Do you have a shop nearby to test your mobo?

The back of your HDD should look similar to this and the jumper is the 2 @@'s above one another.

(EDIT) Never mind the attachment. I was trying to upload this:

J1 IDE Connector | J2 Power
___________ ________|_________________________
| .................... || @ * * o |/ \
| .......... ......... || @ o o o o || O O O O |
|______________________||___________||_________|

Power cable goes on the left, jumper area in center and power on the right.