Hard drive messed up after standby problem

[Guest_imported]

I was running windows xp on a western digital 30 gb hard drive, and accidently clicked on stand by instead of shut off. I then removed the hard drive (its a removable hard drive) after the monitor light went off, thinking the computer had powered off completely. I then put in my 30 gb fujitsu hard drive, pushed the power button, waited, then pushed the power button again. I figured out what had happened quite quickly, and began trying to get either hard drive working. The western digital works sometimes (the fijitsu never has, unless i get the western digital boots up and the fijitsu is on slave), and when i got into xp from there, i ran norton disk doctor on both partitions on both drives, with no problems found (i set it to run on bootup too, with no luck). I also tried using a different cable for the hard drive, with no luck again. I'm going insane trying to fix these, any help is appreciated.

 

[mainegeek]

What happens when you power up with just the western in?

 

[Guest_imported]

The cmos is set to autodetect the hard drives, so it either doesn't detect it, gives a disk error message, or works perfect.

 

[mainegeek]

You say it is a removable hard drive. Check the bracket in the back of the drive bay that holds the cables and make sure it is not loose or broken. The connections might not be seating all the way when you swap drives. Go into cmos and select "none" for drives, reboot, allow it to boot fail, reboot and autodetect drive again in cmos.