:disgust: I'm clueless as what to say about this one, so I'll just tell ya what happened.
To keep things clear I'm just gonna name these 3 HD's for you:
Old one (samsung 10gb) = tom
Non working HD in system 1 (NEW ibm 75gxp 60gb 7200rpm) = jerk
Regular one in system 2 (NEW ibm 75gxp 40gb 7200rpm) = bob
I wanted to throw in an old hard drive (tom) into one of my new systems to recover some old data. I hook it up as a slave, make sure it's recognized by the bios, and boot up. The normal xp pro boot screen appears but after that, instead of going to the desktop, the system just hangs. I figure tom must be the cause so I take it out and reboot. Well now, the com won't even boot w/ jerk , everytime it finishes posting before it can start booting windows, it says "A disk read error occured, press crtl-alt-del to restart". At this point, the system hangs, and not even ctrl-alt-del will restart it. I tried changing cables, moving it to a different IDE channel, setting it as the slave, etc. Nothing worked. I then tried moving jerk to my other system as the slave thinking that once it booted from bob, I might be able to at least access jerk from windows to recover my data. Now the system bob is in is a dual boot w/ xp pro and 98. When I boot to xp pro w/ jerk as the slave, the system just hangs. I thought all was hopeless when I thought to boot to 98 for the heck of it. I couldn't believe it when it actually worked! I was able to access one of the partitions on jerk (1 it fat32 and the other 2 are ntfs) and backed up the files from that partition to bob. I still can't get to the other 2 cuz 98 can't read ntfs partitions. I have no idea how jerk just died on me, I don't think putting in tom had anything to do w/ it. And even stranger, I don't see how when I move jerk to my other system, it will hang it when I boot to xp but not 98. I have a bad feeling I might need to get jerk replaced since it supposed to be still under warranty (it's only 3 months old) but I still need to get all my data backed up from the 2 ntfs partitions. Plz, if you have any suggestions whatsoever, post them! Some addtional info if it may help:
The system jerk was in -
epox 8kha+
visiontek geforce 2 gts-v
512mb crucial pc2100
creative audigy
duron 900
win xp pro
To keep things clear I'm just gonna name these 3 HD's for you:
Old one (samsung 10gb) = tom
Non working HD in system 1 (NEW ibm 75gxp 60gb 7200rpm) = jerk
Regular one in system 2 (NEW ibm 75gxp 40gb 7200rpm) = bob
I wanted to throw in an old hard drive (tom) into one of my new systems to recover some old data. I hook it up as a slave, make sure it's recognized by the bios, and boot up. The normal xp pro boot screen appears but after that, instead of going to the desktop, the system just hangs. I figure tom must be the cause so I take it out and reboot. Well now, the com won't even boot w/ jerk , everytime it finishes posting before it can start booting windows, it says "A disk read error occured, press crtl-alt-del to restart". At this point, the system hangs, and not even ctrl-alt-del will restart it. I tried changing cables, moving it to a different IDE channel, setting it as the slave, etc. Nothing worked. I then tried moving jerk to my other system as the slave thinking that once it booted from bob, I might be able to at least access jerk from windows to recover my data. Now the system bob is in is a dual boot w/ xp pro and 98. When I boot to xp pro w/ jerk as the slave, the system just hangs. I thought all was hopeless when I thought to boot to 98 for the heck of it. I couldn't believe it when it actually worked! I was able to access one of the partitions on jerk (1 it fat32 and the other 2 are ntfs) and backed up the files from that partition to bob. I still can't get to the other 2 cuz 98 can't read ntfs partitions. I have no idea how jerk just died on me, I don't think putting in tom had anything to do w/ it. And even stranger, I don't see how when I move jerk to my other system, it will hang it when I boot to xp but not 98. I have a bad feeling I might need to get jerk replaced since it supposed to be still under warranty (it's only 3 months old) but I still need to get all my data backed up from the 2 ntfs partitions. Plz, if you have any suggestions whatsoever, post them! Some addtional info if it may help:
The system jerk was in -
epox 8kha+
visiontek geforce 2 gts-v
512mb crucial pc2100
creative audigy
duron 900
win xp pro