Help - Hard Drive Problems!

Tenatious · 31 Mar 2007 at 15:50

Hello,
I got a SAT-A hard drive and it works fine. All my music and needed documents are on an older IDE drive. When I attach the IDE drive windows wont load. It gets as far as the windows loader then just stays black.

I have checked the bios to make sure the SAT-A is first to load. There is no installation of windows on the drive I dont think although when I try and add an installation to it using the windows cd, the computer restarts on the section where it says checking hard drive. Please help

Tenatious · 31 Mar 2007 at 15:53

I currently have the IDE set to Primary Master, should it be primary slave?

Tenatious · 31 Mar 2007 at 15:56

There are no other drives except the CD Drives. Could they be causing the issue?

Tenatious · 31 Mar 2007 at 15:59

Yes there is. Should I set it to that?

Tenatious · 31 Mar 2007 at 16:07

It gets as far as the loader and then gets a BSOD before rebooting :'(
I really need the files that are on it.

Tenatious · 31 Mar 2007 at 16:15

Also, If I add the power after Ive loaded windows and then go find hardware. It adds it but then freezes and reboots.

Is there not a way for the drive to be connected without the pc trying to load from it so i can just copy files across? Or a way of doing it without booting up?

Tenatious · 31 Mar 2007 at 16:19

Just did. Same effect.
Pc just keeps rebooting.

Tenatious · 31 Mar 2007 at 16:31

I get the feeling the hard drives had it as it wont even let me install windows on it.

Tenatious · 31 Mar 2007 at 17:05

My brother has recommended sticking the drive in the freezer. Will this work?