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[JuggaloZeke]

I got some 4-5 year old Gateway PC that I was going to use to format the drive in my new(-to-me) PC that I am using now. But... something went wrong, horribly wrong. After I pulled out the drive thats in the PC I am on now I pulled the jumper pins and set it on park/slave. I checked the one that was in my Gateway PC and it was set to Master (factory default). So I hooked 'em both up, booted the PC and... it booted from the slave. So I took it out and decided to not bother at the moment so I re-assembled both cases and went to start the Gateway and now it is acting like there is no HDD connected. Yea, well, I have no idea whats up. The cables are connected securely and everything. Anything else that would help, let me know. (This is my families PC I screwed up so it kinda needs to be fixed.)

[XeroKitsune]

The first thing I would do is check what the bios shows.  On gatways it can normaly be accessed by hitting th F1 key at boot. Check the IDE configuration, make shur it's looking for a drive.
I would also power it with the case open (make shur not to damage it ya know lick your finger and touch the moherboard and such) to check if the drive spins up and has power.
While you didn't say if you changed the jumper on the system drive, if it's the only thing on the ide chain try setting it to cable select (odd yes but I have run into some motherboard/drive combos that didn't like master without a slave but cable select works).
If it's still no good, I would reseat the connections (unplug and re plug in) just to be safe. I would do both the power and IDE for the drive and the other end of the IDE on the mother board.
Next thing I would try using a diffrent IDE cable (since you may not have a spare you could unplug the cdrom's from the mother board and devices and put that on the HD and the first IDE connection on the motherboard.

Asside from these, the other things I would recomend require another computer. For instance remove your drive system and try it in another machine to make shur it works.

[JuggaloZeke]

Ill give your suggestions a shot but as I said in the first post the factory default for the cases drive was set as master. Also, I had the drive-to-be-formatted sitting outside of the case kinda and it was resting on the PS (stupid me) which kept it from starting the first few times but thats the drive that it actually booted from and the one that I am using at the moment, could that have had an effect? Oh well, off to try your advice.

[JuggaloZeke]

I am an idiot, lol. I though for SURE I had that IDE cable tight but I doule checked it and it wasnt in all the way. Fixed it, booted it, still nothing. Check the IDE connection to the motherboard, loose, fixed it, works great. Lol, thanks for motivating me to double check it.