very weird HD issue

[BVD]

Posted this in Hd's but I think it's being
missed:

2 hard drives:
20 gig IBM IDE and a 9 gig IBM SCSI UW.
A month ago the 20 gig lost it's ability to boot;
no biggy since I use it now for backup. Seems ok
for that. Last nite the SCSI drive (also backup)
came up fine on the first boot but then went wacky. Now the 2940uw scsi card sees it ok and Win98se sees it too, but I can't access the drive
and under properties the drive displays 'zero mb
total .. zero mb used'. So it seems to find the
drive physically but insists there's no data.
Explorer simply says the drive is not accessable.
I've replaced cables and checked all connections,
so far nothing. The SCSI card does find the scsi
CDROM and it works fine, so at least part of the
scsi card is ok. I also tried plugging the scsi HD
into the external connector (instead of internally), still nothing.

Now here's the wacky part: BOTH IBM drives have a
weird heavy magnetic 'pull' feeling when I hold them in my hand. It literally feels like theres a giant magnet somewhere in the room pulling my arm. And I mean the pull is STRONG not subtle while I'm walking accross the room .. nowhere near anything.

Am I nuts? What the hell's going on?

Thanx
Bill

[rrockey]

have you scanned for boot sector viruses?
disabled virus protection in bios (if appl)
run fdisk /mbr on both drives
make sure your bios isn't enabling some sort of write protection on your drives,

what do the drives show in fdisk?

btw magnetism destroys data

[DocPC]

The "magnetism" you feel when holding the drives is just the platters spinning.