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Bios will not recognize hard drive

Last answer on Nov 5, 2009 11:23:57 pm GMT cjbidder22, on Nov 5, 2009 9:03:19 pm GMT 
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Hello,
my old pc stopped working so i have bought a new one, but i need the data from the old hard drive so i connected it to the new pc but it will not recognize it; would this be because the old pc OS was XP but i now have windows7 any suggestions appreciated

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xpcman, on Nov 5, 2009 9:29:30 pm GMT
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It has nothing to do with Windows. If you have correctly connected the drive and it still doesn't work then I would suspect that the hard drive is broken.

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cjbidder22, on Nov 5, 2009 10:59:28 pm GMT

Thankyou for your response; is it as easy as plugging it in and away you go? as it also has the old ide ribbon contacts and my new hard drive has sata contacts; however the motherboard does have an ide socket (if i am making sense)

   
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xpcman, on Nov 5, 2009 11:01:34 pm GMT

Yes, The new ide socket should work with the old drive.

   
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cjbidder22, on Nov 5, 2009 11:04:03 pm GMT

Thanks, i have 3 of them i will try another one and see how it goes

   
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 cjbidder22, on Nov 5, 2009 11:23:57 pm GMT

Thankyou very much 2nd hard drive went straight in works well and transferring data now, so the other hard drive is dead; no way of getting data off?

   
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