HD corrupted?

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superlyduper

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I was moving my seagate 200gb IDE drive to a new case, and when I booted up and went to the bios, it showed the drive as a bunch of random symbols (while other drives would have the right names (such as Western Digital 800JB). What problem does this indicate? and might it be fixed?
 
No idea, but sometimes things work without knowing exactly why. If something changed and it doesn't work, change it back. ;)

I may not know why it doesn't work in the new system, but it doesn't prevent me from fixing the problem. Maybe someone else is able to answer why, but I can't.
 
Sounds like a bad connection on one of those old IDE cables.
Try another cable.
 
Yes, I've had similar too many times with the old flat ribbon IDE cables.
They are usually ok if plugged in and left alone but if unplugged a number of times, the cables can stretch or wear at the connector contacts.
One of the conductors can then fail to make a good contact with the hard drive connector causing data corruption.
 
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