Hi thanks for reading. So, my old pc was a windows vista which died on me so i bought new componants and used my old hdd from my previous pc in my new one which decided to die on startup so i bought a new hdd and freshly installed windows 7 on it. This new pc has worked fine no problems at all. The reason my old one died was because the board on the hdd had fried. Iv just recieved a new board today and iv plugged it in as a slave to make sure it works and it does, my pc recognises it and after giving it an initial and a format i was able to access it. So i took the board off the new hdd and put it on my old fried hdd and it fires up as the only drive (main drive) but this time my pc wont fire up. It seems to ignore my f8 command to enter DOS or boot up and goes straight onto this message:
Amibios(c)2010 American Megatrends
Asus M4A88T-M ACPI bIOS Revision 2403
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) II x2 245 Processor
Speed: 2.9Ghz
DDR3-1333, Unganged mode
Press DEL to run setup
Boot selection popup has been selected
Press Alt+f2 to execute ASUS EZ-Flash 2
Autodetecting SATA 1... IDE hard Disk
3rd Master Hard disk error
Press f1 to resume
---- after pressing f1 i get the message "reboot + select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press any key.
If i attach the drive as a slave drive with my fully functioning windows 7 drive has boot 1 i get the same message but with a slight difference
Amibios(c)2010 American Megatrends
Asus M4A88T-M ACPI bIOS Revision 2403
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) II x2 245 Processor
Speed: 2.9Ghz
DDR3-1333, Unganged mode
Press DEL to run setup
****Press f8 for BBS popup*********
Boot selection popup has been selected
Press Alt+f2 to execute ASUS EZ-Flash 2
Autodetecting SATA 1... IDE hard Disk
******4th Slave Hard disk error******
Press f1 to resume
-- with again the same error asking for boot disk after pressing f1.
The weird thing is, I had the old disk with the new board plugged in as a slave and my pc booted up fine but i couldnt recognise it in my disk management like i could before i changed the boards over.
Anybody got ideas?
Eagerly awaiting replies. Thanks.
P.S i dont want to format or lose the data on the old drive hense me buying a new board. Thanks in advance
Amibios(c)2010 American Megatrends
Asus M4A88T-M ACPI bIOS Revision 2403
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) II x2 245 Processor
Speed: 2.9Ghz
DDR3-1333, Unganged mode
Press DEL to run setup
Boot selection popup has been selected
Press Alt+f2 to execute ASUS EZ-Flash 2
Autodetecting SATA 1... IDE hard Disk
3rd Master Hard disk error
Press f1 to resume
---- after pressing f1 i get the message "reboot + select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press any key.
If i attach the drive as a slave drive with my fully functioning windows 7 drive has boot 1 i get the same message but with a slight difference
Amibios(c)2010 American Megatrends
Asus M4A88T-M ACPI bIOS Revision 2403
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) II x2 245 Processor
Speed: 2.9Ghz
DDR3-1333, Unganged mode
Press DEL to run setup
****Press f8 for BBS popup*********
Boot selection popup has been selected
Press Alt+f2 to execute ASUS EZ-Flash 2
Autodetecting SATA 1... IDE hard Disk
******4th Slave Hard disk error******
Press f1 to resume
-- with again the same error asking for boot disk after pressing f1.
The weird thing is, I had the old disk with the new board plugged in as a slave and my pc booted up fine but i couldnt recognise it in my disk management like i could before i changed the boards over.
Anybody got ideas?
Eagerly awaiting replies. Thanks.
P.S i dont want to format or lose the data on the old drive hense me buying a new board. Thanks in advance