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Notebook hard drive to IDE adapter, plugged power cord in backwards?

have a notebook to IDE HDD adapter and accidentally plugged the power cord in backwards. It corrupted my desktop’s master hard drive and would not boot into XP, but I was able to run chkdsk on another machine and fix the problem. However, my notebook hard drive cannot be recognized anymore in either machine. Is there anything I can do to fix this?

Weird. I’ve plugged those things in backwards before and nothing happened. Maybe yours is broken. Be careful. I had one catch fire before. (I was doing something stupid at the time . That doesn’t happen during normal use…usually.)

Make sure you have the adapter where the power is on the left as you look at the drive with the label up and the circuit board down. There might be a triangle or an arrow on the top right side of the connector or a 1. When its plugged in, there will be a group of 4 pins on to the right of it. The power would be on the opposite side.

When you attach IDE cable, you should see the red stripe nearest the power cable connector.

When you you plug it in and power up the PC you should hear the drive spin up. Your adapter may have a drive light on it.

When you go into windows, check it under disk management.
Right Click My Computer, Manage, Disk Management

You should see it there. If there is no partition, then you would have to use a 3rd party utility to get the files back. Or you can just create the partition and format it as you like if you don’t care about lost files.

If there is a partition, you might have to assign it a drive letter. If that doesn’t work, you could run CHKDSK on it and see what happens. Or delete the partition and create a new one.

One other thing. It will be the Master drive by default. You might just unplug the CD ROM and plug it in there. I believe the 4 extra pins can set it to slave with a jumper, but I can’t remember. I don’t have one in front of me to check at the moment.

This is all from memory. I apologize in advance for any mistakes. lol

Good luck.

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