On Sunday 17 August 2003 08:12 am, S. Bulterman wrote:
Yes. Unconnect the old drive for a while. I've had problems with drives that periodically lock up the entire machine even when that drive was not actually being used.
I have seen a similar problem on many boxes when the pins in the power cable going to the hd become spread a little. That can drive you nuts! Pull the plug and look at the pins, one may look a bit wider than the others. A simple fix is to use a very thin screwdriver to compress the pin slightly. What usually happens is you have to wiggle the connector to get it off a drive and that wiggle can spread the pin slightly. i found the problem on one machine by carefully moving the power cables as the machine was running. when the connector failed, the hd would click. BE VERY JUDICIOUS IN DOING THIS AS YOU CAN CORRUPT YOUR DATA ON THE HD AS IT STOPS AND STARTS!!!! Richard