Quote Originally Posted by Baloki
Thats because when you changed the cable position it changed the drive from being a master to a slave because the Hard Drive would have been on cable select.
Cable select. *shudder*

Sounds very much like a hardware issue.

Here's an idea...
Are you installing any of the hardware driver updates from windows update? If you are, don't. Just update drivers from the manufacturers' websites.

I don't know if this is even relevant, but I just thought I would put in my $0.02.