SirCyber
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Ok, so some of you know I recently moved from Kansas US to Oregon US. I left my Shuttle PC there, but took my HDD from there, on which I have some very important software and other documents. now, I get here to Oregon, and I try to load up the disk on another computer. Nada. went to the Windows screen but didn't register the keyboard or mouse. Figured that it might be because I almost exclusively use my USB keyboard and mouse with that HDD and OS, so I plug in my keyboard and mouse. Still nothing. With either, I don't get num, caps, scroll, any of those locks even. Needless to say there was no action whatsoever with the mouse either. Ok, says I, it must be that my HDD doesn't like this computer. *never had this problem before* So I plug it into a different computer. This one uses Vista as it's native os on the HDD it normally uses. I disengage that hdd, plug in mine, and viola! nothing. not even a BSOD. Ok, says I, must be that the drivers on it are for vista and my XP won't register the video drivers. so, I'm sitting around today. I manage to land 3 free computers! only one works, an old Pentium 2 Sony Vaio. Now I throw my HDD in THIS system, and it does a loop of restarting. After the first loop, it brings up the nice little dialogue of "choose from safe mode, normal, blah blah blah". Ok, says I, now something has got to be wrong. so I use my live cd that my company uses for system cleans. *this is really cool cuz it allows us to run cleaning software from outside of the windows registry* and VIOLA!!!! there is NO HDD recognized from within my live cd! ok, now things are getting dire. I now have the drive slaved up to the drive I'm on, and it registers it! I'm getting exited, get into My Computer, double click my HDD, and OH NO!!!! "The disk in drive G is not formatted. Would you like to format now?" OH CRAP! so, I right click, go to properties, and my nice 250 GB hdd is registering 0 usage out of 0 bytes. I am thoroughly confused, worried, the whole nine yards. if my drive were dead, would it allow me to get into windows at all *as in the first time I hooked it up*, or register that there is a windows os on it but ask me how I want to start *as in the Vaio*? how can I retrieve the information on it? what can I do? would reinstalling windows help my issue, or do I need the Shuttle that I just came from? some more info. the HDD was NOT the original HDD of the shuttle, it came from a custom gaming rig that the mobo died in. ok, lets see if I can get some information!