I was in a hurry trying to help a friend with a small form factor style pc. I had a bunch of simple apps on a backup HDD but he had no extra sata power connections. I found a IDE/sata splice and adapter and hooked it up. the connection went easy it was not till I turned it on that I realized it went too easy. The IDE power connection on the splice was backwards. After yelling at my friend I tried it back on my own pc. It doesn't show error or anything when hooking it up. Anything at all, like it doesn't exist. I am no armature and tried everything I can think of, I couldn't even find anything helpful on HBCD. That HDD was my total backup and was a Terra-byte of info I had collected (personal, business, and private) that 80% of cannot be duplicated or copied from anywhere anymore please help me... dot dot dot dash dash dash dot dot dot . . . - - - . . . mayday!!!!toddstay@live.com