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As its an ata drive (I am presuming pata rather than sata) try it on its own in the pc. Wrong jumper settings may cause problems if it's on the same ide cable.Set it to master and use a boot cd/floppy and see if you can access the drive. Check in the bios and see if it's seen there.
If that works there are further steps you can take to recover the data
Edit : When you say it doesn't boot up do you mean to windows or it does not power on?
Cheers Chris 
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maygood (17/11/2008)
As its an ata drive (I am presuming pata rather than sata) try it on its own in the pc. Wrong jumper settings may cause problems if it's on the same ide cable.Set it to master and use a boot cd/floppy and see if you can access the drive. Check in the bios and see if it's seen there.
If that works there are further steps you can take to recover the data
Edit : When you say it doesn't boot up do you mean to windows or it does not power on?Yea it wont boot to windows xp. Sticks on start-up screen. Ill try setting it to master and use a boot cd..
Cheers ~ Daniel www.micromart.co.uk System 1 ~ [ASUS P5E-VM HDMI Motherboard] [Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 2.53GHz (1066MHz) Processor] [Crucial 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 Memory] [500GB SATAII Western Digital Hard Drive] [Sony Dual Layer SATA DVD±RW] [Arctic Cooling 7 Pro Processor Cooler] [500W EarthWatts PSU] [Antec Sonata III Tower Case] [19" TFT Monitor] [Windows XP Pro] System 2 ~ [ASUSTeK Computer INC. A7N8X-X Motherboard - Chipset nVidia nForce2 400] [AMD 3200+2.2 GHz] [2GB PC 3200(200MHz) Memory] [NVIDIA nForce4 MX 440] [19" TFT Monitor] [Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 4 24-bit Sound Card] [80GB HDD1] [20GB HDD2] [Sony CD-RW] [NEC DVD-RW] [Windows XP Pro] Laptop 1 ~ [Asus X50N] [AMD Turion X2 TL 52 (1.6ghz) CPU] [2GB Memory] [120GB HDD] [Vista Home Premium] Laptop 2 ~ [Acer Aspire 1360] [AMD Sempron 1.8GHz 1600MHz CPU] [1GB Memory] [60GB HDD] [Windows XP Home]
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I just tried putting it as slave and it recognised the drive, but wouldn't continue to windows, just the same as before..
Cheers ~ Daniel www.micromart.co.uk System 1 ~ [ASUS P5E-VM HDMI Motherboard] [Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 2.53GHz (1066MHz) Processor] [Crucial 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 Memory] [500GB SATAII Western Digital Hard Drive] [Sony Dual Layer SATA DVD±RW] [Arctic Cooling 7 Pro Processor Cooler] [500W EarthWatts PSU] [Antec Sonata III Tower Case] [19" TFT Monitor] [Windows XP Pro] System 2 ~ [ASUSTeK Computer INC. A7N8X-X Motherboard - Chipset nVidia nForce2 400] [AMD 3200+2.2 GHz] [2GB PC 3200(200MHz) Memory] [NVIDIA nForce4 MX 440] [19" TFT Monitor] [Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 4 24-bit Sound Card] [80GB HDD1] [20GB HDD2] [Sony CD-RW] [NEC DVD-RW] [Windows XP Pro] Laptop 1 ~ [Asus X50N] [AMD Turion X2 TL 52 (1.6ghz) CPU] [2GB Memory] [120GB HDD] [Vista Home Premium] Laptop 2 ~ [Acer Aspire 1360] [AMD Sempron 1.8GHz 1600MHz CPU] [1GB Memory] [60GB HDD] [Windows XP Home]
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Is there any way of getting the PC to boot-up with the HDD plugged into the Slave and using my original SATA HDD to boot Windows up..?
Cheers ~ Daniel www.micromart.co.uk System 1 ~ [ASUS P5E-VM HDMI Motherboard] [Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 2.53GHz (1066MHz) Processor] [Crucial 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 Memory] [500GB SATAII Western Digital Hard Drive] [Sony Dual Layer SATA DVD±RW] [Arctic Cooling 7 Pro Processor Cooler] [500W EarthWatts PSU] [Antec Sonata III Tower Case] [19" TFT Monitor] [Windows XP Pro] System 2 ~ [ASUSTeK Computer INC. A7N8X-X Motherboard - Chipset nVidia nForce2 400] [AMD 3200+2.2 GHz] [2GB PC 3200(200MHz) Memory] [NVIDIA nForce4 MX 440] [19" TFT Monitor] [Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 4 24-bit Sound Card] [80GB HDD1] [20GB HDD2] [Sony CD-RW] [NEC DVD-RW] [Windows XP Pro] Laptop 1 ~ [Asus X50N] [AMD Turion X2 TL 52 (1.6ghz) CPU] [2GB Memory] [120GB HDD] [Vista Home Premium] Laptop 2 ~ [Acer Aspire 1360] [AMD Sempron 1.8GHz 1600MHz CPU] [1GB Memory] [60GB HDD] [Windows XP Home]
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I think whats happening is that windows is getting confused when the ide is attached. My old AMD64 system could not see both sata and ide drives at boot, but was ok once XP had loaded. I used this "feature" to create two independent installs without the normall dual boot screen.
First check the jumper positions on the drive for master or single drive. There may not be enough jumpers on the drive so you have to use some from another drive if you can. If you have a CD/DVD drive disconnect it entirely so the only thing on that channell is the ide drive.
Then check in your bios to make sure that the sata drive is selected as the hard drive to boot from. It's usually listed in a different menu to the boot order and can cause the problem you have if not set correctly.
If that works you can either copy all the files from the drive to yours and backup to DVD later or buy a new external caddy to house the drive
Cheers Chris
Rig 1 Aerocool M40 Corsair HX520,4CORE1333FULLHD E4500,2GB Corsair DDR2,2 X 80 sata (RAID 0)1 200gb , xfx 7900gs xxx
Rig 2 Winfast 6100k8ma,AMD 64 X2 4200 S939 @2.42Ghz 1GB pc3200 (2x512mb) 500gb SATA
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