G4 Tower not reading Hard Drives

Hello,
I'm running a G4 tower w/ dvd-rom/cd-rw,ZIP,20G HD, and a 40GHD. They are all hooked up to the Internal ATA connectors (HD's on one, CD/ZIP on other).
Yesterday I had to unhook them, now I can't seem to get either of the hard drives to show up.
I can start up from the OS X DVD, but disk utility shows only the DVD/CD drive. I didn't even bother hooking up ZIP drive yet. I have tried switching cables, switching master/slave/cable select on drives, but no matter what combo only the DVD/CD will show up, never either hard drive. I have also zapped pram and nvram.
I remember my G4 being picky about IDE combos and jumpers, but never this picky.
Any hints? suggestions? Is there 1 specific way i should have all this set up?
please help!!!!
Thanks
-Sam
G5 DP 2ghz, G4 AGP 400MHZ (upgraded 1ghz)   Mac OS X (10.4.9)  
G4 PCI 400MHZ   Mac OS X (10.3.7)  

Update:
I just noticed that some how along the way, I seem to have broken a PIN of the the back off both hard drives. They are both missing 1 pin each (not including the one that is missing by default) it's the pins that the IDE cord plugs directly into. I assume that these missing pins are at the root of my HD troubles.
So where do I go from now? I could just buy a new HD, but I really need the information on these two drives. One is a Maxtor, and the other is a Quantom Fireball. Is there anyone way to save the data on the drives? Can i get a new connector on back?
Any tips or links would be helpful.
Thanks.
-Sam

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