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ide drive wont spin

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by rdailly

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my new hard drive will not spin up unless i diconnect the data cable from the back of the drive. with no cable connected it starts to spin,i have replaced power supply and data cablebut still no change.

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by k.sthalbaum

umm sounds a little weird but just by chance did you make the HDD jumper to slave or cable select? might resolve your issue

by mjd420nova

Besides the obvious MASTER/SLAVE jumper settings, the data cable could get reversed and cause this fault. Some drives don't have an index on the connector so it would be possible to get it reversed. The number one wire on the cable is marked with a stripe or is a different color than the others. The number one pin on the drive is the edge closest to the power connector.

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