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  • blinky
    blinky Posts: 1,684 Forumite
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    Have you tried a different IDE cable?
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  • peter_the_piper
    peter_the_piper Posts: 30,269 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Try it on a firends computer? if it dont work then? send it back and tell them thanks for wasteing your time!
    Trying that now, just waiting for him to get back to me.
    blinky Have you tried a different IDE cable?
    I have not yet tried it on a different cable but as I used the same connector as on the working drive I assumed this would be sufficient. However trying on a friends computer will do this anyway won't it?
    I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.
  • blinky
    blinky Posts: 1,684 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Trying that now, just waiting for him to get back to me.
    blinky Have you tried a different IDE cable?
    I have not yet tried it on a different cable but as I used the same connector as on the working drive I assumed this would be sufficient. However trying on a friends computer will do this anyway won't it?
    yes it will do.
    Hug provider for depression thread :grouphug:
    "I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell.." - Unwell by Matchbox Twenty
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