Adam wrote:
> I plugged in my old Hitachi drive into a desktop system with this
> adaptor I found. The power connect was plugged in, and the ribbon
> cable was plugged in and secure. But when the system is powered on, it
> doesn't boot up. It stays at the start-up screen. No messages scroll
> by. Any clues here what this may mean?
>
May need in DOS a fdisk /mbr
Does the system know it is there? check bios and fdisk
Also - the cable is plugged into the the 2.5" disk right? You may have
it the wrong way around and have the 4 power lines connected to data
from the pc, thus leaving the other 4 data pins of the 2.5" drive
unconnected.
Vicky
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