Posted by Jerry on October 24, 19101 at 08:32:55:
Trying to slave a Quantum Bigfoot CY 4.3GB drive (jumpers removed) with a new Maxtor D540X Ultra DMA 100 drive. The drive won't detect on bootup. Have manually configured it in CMOS - still no luck. That Quantum drive seemed to act up before installing this Maxtor. The drive does spin at power up (you can feel and hear it) - the LED also lights intermitently on power up. Are the electronics bad or the mechanical parts of the drive? Have some important info on that drive I'd like to recover. Have downloaded data recovery software I found on the net - didn't work. Have used Maxblast and Powermax (from Maxtor's site) - didn't work either.