I have still been getting the random No Hard Drive found error, so tonight I took my unit apart again, and when plugging it in it came on fine. Then when I rebooted it just after moving the drive/cable back a little bit, it would not boot. I repeated this about 8 times. There seems to be no evidence of a bad IDE header, so I am ordering a new cable. It looks like it has seen better days.
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1993 MR2 MK2a 32gb. 1991 NSX unfortunately with and IPOD.