Hm, I just had a thought about this. I managed to loosen my IDE connectors by being too rough with them. I squeezed them back together with plyers and now they work fine.

But, could I prevent them seperating them again by covering the seams of the black IDE cable header with hot melt glue? I mean, provided I don't goop it on too thick which would keep it from plugging into the drive right.

Or would the hot melt glue not be enough to prevent the IDE cable header from pulling those few millimeters to cause problems? Thanks all.