- Feb 22, 2013
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Good morning community.
I was hoping you could help me out with something.
I have been asked by a friend of mine to try and recover some stuff off a couple of his Grandad's hard drives for him (They're not deleted or anything, the computer they were in is knackered and there is important stuff on there that he needs)
They are old 80gb IDE drive's. One Maxtor, one Seagate. I figured that, possibly, the easiest way to do it would be to grab one of my old systems that I have laying around and hook the hard drives up to it. Easier said than done.
So far, I have installed Win 7 on a computer and managed to access one of his hard drives as a secondary drive and transfer all the stuff off it onto another drive and had no issues there.
THEN came my issue. I wanted to do the same thing with the second drive but every time I plug it in, the computer tries to boot from the IDE drive rather than the sata drive (The SATA drive has Windows on it).
Basically, what happens is when I power up the computer with the 80gb Maxtor plugged in, it comes up with a screen called 'Boot Magic 7.0 which gives me 3 options:
Win9x or MSDOS, WinNT/2000/XP, Win 98.
It doesn't seem to matter which one I click on, the computer just restarts.
What I want to do is tell the BIOS to boot from the Sata drive. Not the IDE drive but when I go to the boot options in the BIOS, all of the bootable devices are locked into one block, meaning I can not select a single hard drive to boot from. All that happens is the entire block gets highlighted, I hit enter then another menu comes up individually listing each hard drive. I select the one I want to boot from but nothing happens.
I have tried moving the jumper around in the IDE drive. I've tried master, slave and cable select but to no avail.
So basically, as long as this IDE drive is plugged in it will not boot from the sata drive but IDE isn't hot swappable so I can't just boot from SATA and then plug the IDE in when I reach Windows.
Anybody have any insight?
If it helps, the BIOS version is MQ96510J.86A.1614.2007.0105.1345
Thanks guys
David
I was hoping you could help me out with something.
I have been asked by a friend of mine to try and recover some stuff off a couple of his Grandad's hard drives for him (They're not deleted or anything, the computer they were in is knackered and there is important stuff on there that he needs)
They are old 80gb IDE drive's. One Maxtor, one Seagate. I figured that, possibly, the easiest way to do it would be to grab one of my old systems that I have laying around and hook the hard drives up to it. Easier said than done.
So far, I have installed Win 7 on a computer and managed to access one of his hard drives as a secondary drive and transfer all the stuff off it onto another drive and had no issues there.
THEN came my issue. I wanted to do the same thing with the second drive but every time I plug it in, the computer tries to boot from the IDE drive rather than the sata drive (The SATA drive has Windows on it).
Basically, what happens is when I power up the computer with the 80gb Maxtor plugged in, it comes up with a screen called 'Boot Magic 7.0 which gives me 3 options:
Win9x or MSDOS, WinNT/2000/XP, Win 98.
It doesn't seem to matter which one I click on, the computer just restarts.
What I want to do is tell the BIOS to boot from the Sata drive. Not the IDE drive but when I go to the boot options in the BIOS, all of the bootable devices are locked into one block, meaning I can not select a single hard drive to boot from. All that happens is the entire block gets highlighted, I hit enter then another menu comes up individually listing each hard drive. I select the one I want to boot from but nothing happens.
I have tried moving the jumper around in the IDE drive. I've tried master, slave and cable select but to no avail.
So basically, as long as this IDE drive is plugged in it will not boot from the sata drive but IDE isn't hot swappable so I can't just boot from SATA and then plug the IDE in when I reach Windows.
Anybody have any insight?
If it helps, the BIOS version is MQ96510J.86A.1614.2007.0105.1345
Thanks guys
David
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