I have an old Compaq5284 and recently started to have problems with the hard drive. The computer used to recognize the hard drive, but it would not boot. If I used a boot disk I could at least access the files. Now the computer does not even recognize the disk. I have since found another hard drive an started over. Everything works fine with the new hard drive. When I plug in the old hard drive again, I get message saying there is no devices attached to the computer. I have plugged in the hard drive in all the different channels with no effect and like I said it is the OEM drive (Quantum Bigfoot TS 19.2GB) and it worked before.

Should I just pitch this hard drive or is there something else I can try?

Thanks,

Jon

pitch it, when you get errors like "no ide devices plugged in", when you plug in bigfoot, it is toast.

When you plugged in the old hard drive did you change the jumpers?