Hello,
My computer is DELL XPS 600 with Windows XP professional OS. I had a hard drive (SATA Maxtor 250 GB) failure and bought a new Western Digital Caviar Blue SATA Internal Hard Drive -320GB. I install OS from recovery disk, and it works fine. I was told I can recover data from corrupted HD to new one, by installing corrupted as a slave. I know that there is no slave or master for SATA HDs. But I cannot get my original corrupted HD recognized. When I go to BIOS it is just not there. Besides, when I turn on computer- OS is not loading-the screen goes black. When I remove corrupted HD –Windows is working just fine. Any help greatly appreciated!!
Thanks!
Now hard dive recognized in boot menu, but still can not run OS-the screen goes black. Good HD connected to 0 SATA port, The corrupted to 1SATA port. If I switch them, computer start booting from corrupted one (does not load Windows).Anything else I can try?