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[olimario]

My mom dropped me Dell. It wouldn't boot up.
I removed the Hard Drive and attempted to put it into my new computer. When I do, the BIOS boots very slowly and neither the Primary IDE (DVD RW) or the Hard Drive show up.

In fact, if I try any configuration other than how the PC came then the BIOS boots slowly and I can't start Windows.

Here is all of the information I have. Can you please help me, GAF? I have years of pictures on there.
THANKS!

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http://img415.imageshack.us/img415/8815/dsc022324yn.jpg
The top right is the IDE connected to my DVDRW. The molex just to the bottom right of that is open, I just have an extension on it.
Here is a closeup of that area.
http://img415.imageshack.us/img415/2198/dsc022303aq.jpg

The bottom right is my new SATA Hard Drive.
http://img415.imageshack.us/img415/1386/dsc022299hx.jpg

Here are a couple shots of my old, possibly messed up Hard Drive.
http://img415.imageshack.us/img415/1136/dsc022338tw.jpg
http://img415.imageshack.us/img415/3465/dsc022345jt.jpg

And here is my BIOS when everything is connected as it came.
http://img415.imageshack.us/img415/32/dsc022357ep.jpg
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[fart]

a sudden cheer from the women of the world

 

[levious]

why not call dell? They might even come pick it up for you. I don't know what they'd charge for file recovery.

 

[olimario]

why not call dell? They might even come pick it up for you. I don't know what they'd charge for file recovery.

They guy I talked to at Dell said that since my warranty was up they would have to charge for file recovery. I'm still bent on doing it for free.

 

[blahness]

what i would try first is taking the dvd drive off of the IDE cable, setting the jumpers on the old HDD to master then see if BIOS detects it. Minimize the potential conflicts.

 

[olimario]

what i would try first is taking the dvd drive off of the IDE cable, setting the jumpers on the old HDD to master then see if BIOS detects it. Minimize the potential conflicts.

That wouldn't conflict with the primary SATA Hard Drive on my new PC?

 

[blahness]

That wouldn't conflict with the primary SATA Hard Drive on my new PC?

unplug the SATA drive from the board as well so the only thing that BIOS will detect is memory and the IDE HDD

btw what make and model is your motherboard?

 

[olimario]

unplug the SATA drive from the board as well so the only thing that BIOS will detect is memory and the IDE HDD

btw what make and model is your motherboard?

But I need a way to drop my files onto my SADA Hard Drive.

And it's an ASUS A8N-E

Thanks

 

[blahness]

But I need a way to drop my files onto my SADA Hard Drive.

And it's an ASUS A8N-E

Thanks

i know but you need to make sure the BIOS can detect the HDD or else you will get nowhere

after the IDE HDD is detected, plug the SATA drive back in and go into BIOS. Look for your boot priority settings you should have SATA set to boot before the IDE drives.

 

[yoopoo]

I'd help but I wont, cause I don't like you.

 

[olimario]

i know but you need to make sure the BIOS can detect the HDD or else you will get nowhere

after the IDE HDD is detected, plug the SATA drive back in and go into BIOS. Look for your boot priority settings you should have SATA set to boot before the IDE drives.

I just tried what you suggested and the BIOS can NOT detect my old Hard Drive.
Do I have any options at this point other than trying professional file recovery?

 

[cvxfreak]

Was this a laptop?

Suddenly, I'm happy Apple installed brakes in their PB/iBook hard drives in case they're dropped.

 

[olimario]

Was this a laptop?

Suddenly, I'm happy Apple installed brakes in their PB/iBook hard drives in case they're dropped.

Nope. Desktop.
I took it with me when it looked like Rita was going to hit and my mom dropped it trying to move things around in her Suburban.

 

[thepusherman]

Dell BIOS' suck. End of story. If it doesn't detect anything on the ide chain when the bios is set to "AUTO" and not "OFF" it takes forever for the PC to post.

 

[thepusherman]

What you need to do it unplug the "new" device you tried to put it... go into the BIOS and set either Primary Slave or Secondary slave as "auto"..... Or you possibly have the jumpers set wrong. If you are using cable select cables... keep both devices on the IDE chain set as cable select. If you're not using cable select cables (every Dell I've worked on used cable select cables) than you must set one as master and one as slave using the jumpers on the back of the drive.

 

[olimario]

Dell BIOS' suck. End of story. If it doesn't detect anything on the ide chain when the bios is set to "AUTO" and not "OFF" it takes forever for the PC to post.

My new computer isn't a Dell.

What you need to do it unplug the "new" device you tried to put it... go into the BIOS and set either Primary Slave or Secondary slave as "auto"..... Or you possibly have the jumpers set wrong. If you are using cable select cables... keep both devices on the IDE chain set as cable select. If you're not using cable select cables (every Dell I've worked on used cable select cables) than you must set one as master and one as slave using the jumpers on the back of the drive.

I've tried all sorts of jumper settings and I have everything in the BIOS set to auto.
Any other ideas?

 

[dem]

Are you sure it wasnt dropped once she found out the foul things you were up to on the internet?




btw
Put it in the freezer!