Computer seems to have died

[Talan Va'lash]

formating would be pointless if the cables are bad.

[EdTheKet]

Allright, operational again.
  Both drives were on one IDE cable and hadn't had problems for 15 months. So when I disconnected one of the drives and keep the other one connected, that one would show up in windos and work. Also if I did it the other way around.
  Just when both were connected, none seemed to work anymore.
  So I got a new cable, connected both to it, no luck. Now one drive is connected to one cable, and the other to another and they both work. Very strange...

[freemen2]

Could be the female part of the cable that was dead but then should work with the new cable fine.  Or that ye have the HD set to master or direct connect and the other isn't slave or direct connect but then it shouldn't have worked in the first place *shrugs*
In anycase good to hear they're working

[lonnarin]

weird.  That sounds like it's suddenly acting as if both drives back jumper pins are set to Master.  If a drive's pins are set to Slave, they usually don't allow the drive to boot from the primary cable like they are doing for you now.  Try checking the HD's manual or website for the jumper positions unless you're certain that's not the problem.  They're the strip of pins on the back of the drive.

[EdTheKet]

I know, and one is master, the other is slave.
  Really very weird. Anyways, both are working now so I'm not touching them