You may have pinched the cable when you closed it up. Do you have another cable? If not you could test by taking the cable off the hardrive and put it on the cd, then boot up with the xp install cd, providing your bios is set to boot from cd, most likely it is if the pc has been made within the last few years. Then if the cd drive works, you will know to go buy another cable.
OK, I see what you are saying,,,but lets have her disconnect the slave drive with the current cable first....or do we have to change the pin to cable select? In which case we should try the cable replace first....
we'll need instructions for notches on the plugin then..........
I've never opened it before; just now was the first time it's been opened.
My husband wondered if it might have been laying against the green "dome" thing on the left side somehow.