WhenKittensATK Posted October 30, 2006 Posted October 30, 2006 My friend's HD started to act up, so he brought it over to my house and I plugged it into my PC. When I started up the PC it said I did not have any HD installed. I also tried to reformat it with his Windows Xp cd but it also did not detect a HD. His HD is an Maxtor SATA 1.5gb/s. The HD was from his Dell Dimension 8400 Any solutions of how to get it to work? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdy284 Posted October 30, 2006 Posted October 30, 2006 is sata enabled in your bios? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhenKittensATK Posted October 30, 2006 Posted October 30, 2006 I dont see anywhere in BIOS to enable SATA. Now it seems to have infected my computer, cause now I cant boot with just my HDs. This is so not cool. They also do not detect. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdy284 Posted October 30, 2006 Posted October 30, 2006 nothing is "infected" if it can't detect the drives then how can anything from one drive infect yours? are your HD's IDE or SATA Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhenKittensATK Posted October 30, 2006 Posted October 30, 2006 Mine are IDE and his is a SATA I 1.5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClayMeow Posted October 30, 2006 Posted October 30, 2006 As sdy said, it wouldn't have screwed up your drives. If you're trying to test his drive, you want to make sure the bios is set so that your drives are primary and the sata is enabled and not selected as a boot device. SATA is techincally "removable" so if you want, you can try booting up with just your harddrives, like you normally would, then once in windows try connecting his drive (if you do this, I'd already have the power connected prior to boot, and just connect the sata cable when in windows. See if the finding new hardware icon appears...btw, I never tried this myself, and I'm not sure all motherboards support this.). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhenKittensATK Posted October 30, 2006 Posted October 30, 2006 The problem is that I can no longer boot with my HD because they do not detect. Its werid because when I first booted it with my main and his harddrive it booted into Windows, but didnt show his HD. Now I cant even boot up just my HD. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerrDogg77 Posted October 30, 2006 Posted October 30, 2006 reset your cmos, and plug your hd back in Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhenKittensATK Posted October 30, 2006 Posted October 30, 2006 (edited) nope that didnt work 10:20 pm -- I just tried to write a new boot sector, but that didnt seem to work. I'm gonna try to reformat it now. Next day-- Ended up having to switch different IDE cables to get my hard drives to detect while reinstalling Windows. My HDs are fixed but it took me the whole day and my frd was gonna take his HD to some tech support guy at his mom's work. Edited November 1, 2006 by Krazyxazn Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makaveli Posted November 3, 2006 Posted November 3, 2006 I know it sounds rediculous, but are you 100% positive that your friend's hard drive is running when you start it? I had a 250GB hard drive that I never heard it die, but windows didn't detect it, and I didn't find out until I opened my case and listened. You never know... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrusk Posted November 4, 2006 Posted November 4, 2006 (edited) Sometimes drives just die. It's happened to me on several occasions, and it's about to happen again. It sucks, but so do a lot of things. Good luck with the data recovery my friend. Edited November 4, 2006 by andrusk Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhenKittensATK Posted November 4, 2006 Posted November 4, 2006 yea that was the first thing i did when it didnt detect during bios, im pretty sure i heard it spinning but my fans are pretty loud. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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