Did the "friend" open the case of the computer? If so I suspect that they
either disconnected the power to an ide drive - more likely tho is that they
moved the jumper switches so that both of them tell the computer thathe ide
drive is set to master/master not master slave.

Try these links;-
fitting the drives section on http://www.buildyourown.org.uk/

http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/hard.html

http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/cdsetup.html

HTH


"Junkmailraus" wrote in message
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My problem is that an ex-roommate of mine did something to my computer
which I
have no idea how to remedy. The result of his vandallism is that before,
I was
able to use two hardrives on the IDE1 gray strap, but now it will only
work
with one drive at a time. IDE2 still allows two CDs to operate.

Where do I start here? Is it missing a jumper or something like that?
I've
tried setting the BIOS to the default values, etc, but nothing has yet
worked.
Does anyone have a clue what he could have done quickly to produce such
results???

Thanks in advance for your efforts. Depending on the hard drive I use,
I'm
running either W2K-P or XP-P operating systems. I have an IBM compatable
with
a Pentium 2 processor, I think. It runs at 333 MHz and I don't know what
else
to tell you about it. I haven't a clue how to identify the motherboard
for
you. For this reason, I haven't been able to search the net for answers.

Thanks again.