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Quantum Fireball 15/20

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Gawd
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I'm working on an old computer that has a Quantum Fireball 15/20. When I hook the drive to my laptop via a USB bridge, I am told in the disk management utility that there are no drivers for the disk. Also, the drive isn't recognized by the orignal system after replacing the IDE cable. I thought the drive might be bricked but I tried the same thing with another Quantum with the exact same specifications. Maxtor's site doesn't have anything that helps. Can someone offer advice? This is really driving me nuts and I want to get this fucking machine back to the owners before I destroy it. :)
 
Check the jumpers on it, there may be some bizarre settings on it for a drive that old. That's the only thing I can think of, really wacky problem. Does the drive sound like it's still mechanically sound?
 
Yeah, both drives were perfect until I unplugged them from the IDE bus and tried to externalize them via USB. When that didn't work, I plugged them back in exactly how they were and nothing. It POSTs and right when it gets to where it would initiate the OS via the HD access I get a blinking non-insert cursor in the upper left. When I try to boot from CD I get the same thing. Its awful. I'm probably just going to replace the drive and look like the asshole computer guy that lost the data. Eff.
 
You did put the drive back in the exact same position on the IDE cable, didn't you? Especially older systems can be really finicky about whether the master device is really connected to the black (second from the mainboard connector) connector on the IDE cable, which might cause it to fail booting.

The HDD is detected by the BIOS, isn't it?

Do you still have the original IDE cable? Is it a 40 or 80 conductor one?
 
Same cable, same location, same jumper settings.
BIOS sees the drive but won't use it. If I get another jumper-pin stabwound in my cuticle from switching the settings again I'm going to start setting random fires.
 
If you need the data try putting it in another machine.

As for hurting yourself with the jumpers... LOL! Try some tweezers, they acutally work pretty well.

Best of luck on figuring this out though, it sounds a bit odd. Maybe the external enclosure wasn't providing enough power for the HDD? Sorry if I missunderstood this, but that's what it sounds like you are doing. If you have another computer to try it in though that'd be your best bet.
 
Hey Cannon...
Good call on the tweezers. I'm a total failure for not thinking of that myself, lol.
I'm about to try it with another system.
 
I found that just shelling out $30 for a new drive and taking a sledgehammer to the old one was a lot more satisfying and worthwhile.
I'll post pics later.
 
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