Hard disk problem.

[TheSwede]

Hi all,

I am trying to access a hard drive that was the C: unit in a friends computer.. when trying to start up his PC the BSOD flashes quickly on the screen and then it just reboots.. all it does is going around in a loop so I thought that there might just be some disk reading error, which I had before on another PC and I was able to repair it by accessing the drive through another PC.. i.e. pulling the C: drive and putting it into a external casing and accessing it that way.. anyway..

I tried doing this with my friends hard drive and when I turn on the external drive I can hear it spin up but nothing happens.. when I click on any of my other drives in "My Computer" nothing happens until I turn of the external drive and then everything works fine once again.. I am presuming that the HDD is inaccessible and all it can be used for now is as a paper weight.. or is there some way I can access it so that I at least can retrieve my friends saved stuff on the HDD?

Really appreciate any help you guys and gals can give me!

 

[da_ging]

sounds like something your end rather than with the drive as if it blue screens in his computer then it is obviously detected and loading up ok, is it sata or ide ? if it's ide and your connecting it via usb try changing the jumper settings to master

 

[TheSwede]

Thanks for your input da_ging, much appreciated!

Its an IDE HDD and its set for master already.. actually, on my own HDD that I had in the external enclosure I can see it set for slave so I will try that when I get back home from work later today!