IDE connector problem... question

[Rambo]

PROBLEM SOLVED! THANKS MITHENT!



I had a 400gb HDD given to me. The guy apparently did something crazy and broke a couple pins on the IDE connector. I've been doing some research and going through some diagrams and found that the 2 pins that are messed up (only one from what I can see is really messed up, although that guy said there were 2 messed up) are pins 1 & 2. And from what I've found, pin 1 is for reset and pin 2 is ground. Question is, are those pins necessary for normal operation? I wouldn't think the ground is but I'm not sure about the reset. I tried hooking it up already, only in one computer and it didnt work. Well, it showed it in my BIOS and detected it in boot, but Windows didn't show it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

EDIT: o yeah, here's one of the pics I've found:
http://www.memtech.com/images/conn_ide35.gif

 

[Mithent]

This claims that Pin 1 is not needed for ordinary operations, and it's quite possible that its related ground pin is also not needed:
http://www.dansdata.com/io024.htm

Does it appear in Windows' Disk Manager? It might just not be formatted.

 

[Rambo]

Thanks very much for your reply. I completely forgot about using disk management. I don't think I've ever installed an unformatted HDD in a machine before lol. Thanks for that link too, it eased my troubles. The drive's formatting now, so she should be good to go! Thanks!