Evening,
Yesturday i did some maintenence on my computer (well just adding a new heatsink and fan) and it all went fine until i couldnt POST. Nothing came on screen but this does happen sometimes when the system is overclocked or cold booted. Usually, leaving it for a bit seems to cure the problem and it did.
Upon loading up again, i setup the BIOS because i had cleared CMOS. My Hitachi was recognise as the primary IDE drive as it has always been and saved. However, the whole loading process whas really slow and i could not then load into windows as i got an error message saying something along the lines of "no disk detected, please press any key to continue"
Anyway, i tried setting my slave HDD as my primary without the hitachi and the BIOS screen and loading process was 2x as fast. This had really confused me, but the disk was empty so i installed XP on it and tried setting up the Hitachi as the slave once it was done to backup my data.
However, even then, i get the same error about no disk being detected, even though i havent set it too boot into the Hitachi at all, and the jumpers are set correctly for a slave drive.
So i tried the Hitachi on another computer as a slave but the computer did not decide to load past the windows logon screen. Unplugged the drive and it was as speedy as anything.
Basically, the Hitachi is recognised in the BIOS, but refuses to let me access the data from it (which is about 30GB in total which i dont really want to loose)
What options do i have now? Anyway of rescueing the drive or even just the data? As i am working now i can afford to buy a new HDD but i would still like to get my data back if possible.
Also, if i do get a new HDD, what is better between SATA and IDE? What are the main differences? (i know nothing about SATA basically) and is it worth going SATA for future-proofing or shall i just go with IDE like i always have?
Many thanks.
Yesturday i did some maintenence on my computer (well just adding a new heatsink and fan) and it all went fine until i couldnt POST. Nothing came on screen but this does happen sometimes when the system is overclocked or cold booted. Usually, leaving it for a bit seems to cure the problem and it did.
Upon loading up again, i setup the BIOS because i had cleared CMOS. My Hitachi was recognise as the primary IDE drive as it has always been and saved. However, the whole loading process whas really slow and i could not then load into windows as i got an error message saying something along the lines of "no disk detected, please press any key to continue"
Anyway, i tried setting my slave HDD as my primary without the hitachi and the BIOS screen and loading process was 2x as fast. This had really confused me, but the disk was empty so i installed XP on it and tried setting up the Hitachi as the slave once it was done to backup my data.
However, even then, i get the same error about no disk being detected, even though i havent set it too boot into the Hitachi at all, and the jumpers are set correctly for a slave drive.
So i tried the Hitachi on another computer as a slave but the computer did not decide to load past the windows logon screen. Unplugged the drive and it was as speedy as anything.
Basically, the Hitachi is recognised in the BIOS, but refuses to let me access the data from it (which is about 30GB in total which i dont really want to loose)
What options do i have now? Anyway of rescueing the drive or even just the data? As i am working now i can afford to buy a new HDD but i would still like to get my data back if possible.
Also, if i do get a new HDD, what is better between SATA and IDE? What are the main differences? (i know nothing about SATA basically) and is it worth going SATA for future-proofing or shall i just go with IDE like i always have?
Many thanks.
