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Flake:
OK, if I'm going to replace my existing hard drive, do I set the current (corrupt) hard drive to master and the new HD to slave?  If so what happens when I clone over to the new HD?  Do I then have to reset it as the master/single drive after the old HD image has been copied over?  I can imagine leaving it in a slave position?

Also there seems to be some wire hanging lose on the very bottom right of the motherboard.  Its  little white cable/wire with the words "power led" on the black end of it.  There are also some other blue, red, green and white cables plugging into the same area as this disconnected cable.  The mother board text on the area HLED, SPK and RST.  God could this be my issue?
severdhed:
those are the front panel connectors, the one that says "power led" is for the power LED (surprise!!!)  it is not necessary.  the others should be for the speaker (just for beeps) power switch, reset switch, and Hard Drive LED.  the only one you really need connected for it to work is the power switch.

when both drives are in, it shouldn't matter which one is master and slave, as long as there is one of each (or they are both set to Cable Select).

once you take the old one out, make sure the new one is either set to Cable Select or Master.  some drives will have a different setting for Master with a slave present, and Master - single drive.  make sure it is set appropriately .

fallacy:
I have been doing helpdesk computer support for the last 5 years. It sounds like your hard drive went bad; bad sectors on it. Only thing you can do is get a new drive.
Flake:
---fudgesicle--- I bought the wrong damn HD, mine is a SATA not EIDE.  Thats what I get when I purchase something before looking under the hood.
bkenobi:
You can get an adapter if it's too late to trade it.
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