Recent content by crh0872

phucng- the issue is that it isn't getting by POST. any computer can successfully POST without a hard drive, floppy drive, or cd drive. the problem is not that it's posting and freezing when trying to boot an OS, it's not trying to boot anything in the first place. it just locks up. if it...

what?!?

this has nothing to do with a hard drive

i built this system about 2 years ago and it ran great...until i upgraded the case (bad idea). i took everything out and put it in the new case, and i got a "system failed CPU test" over and over, and eventually after different combinations of hardware, i get just a "no signal" on the monitor...

well okay then, thanks a lot guys.... i managed to figure the whole thing out by myself. so here's how it goes: thanks to norton's partition magic i was able to find out that it was only hidden, everything was there, but windows didn't recognize it 'cause it was hidden. the reason is becuase...

oooookay then nevermind i found great software called easyrecover pro. if anyone else is having problems, this is the software to use. http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecoveryprofessional/

im gonna kill the guy that had the idea for those

i need good data recovery software to extract files from a hard drive. the files are still there but windows doesnt know what partition it is

well i need that stuff, so i think im gonna buy a SATA drive, copy all the stuff over to it and do basically what you just said. i can access the files fine, just not with windows. do you think if i duplicated it it would duplicate the problem too, or should i just copy over the files i need?

trillian 3 pro baby

yeah np partition magic is good too but partition commander is incredibly easy

oops i meant SATA, SERIAL ata

good old asus

basically can i have 2 IDE drives and one SATA drive at the same time?

IDE and SATA alright, i have an IDE drive that has partition commander on it which i want to use to copy another IDE hard drive to an SATA hard drive. is it that easy?