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Bios will not recognize hard drive

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cjbidder22 - Nov 5, 2009 at 04:03 PM
 cjbidder22 - Nov 5, 2009 at 06:23 PM
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 Posts 19528 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 1,824
Nov 5, 2009 at 04:29 PM
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.

Good Luck
cjbidder22
Nov 5, 2009 at 05:59 PM
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 Posts 19528 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 1,824
Nov 5, 2009 at 06:01 PM
Yes, The new ide socket should work with the old drive.
cjbidder22
Nov 5, 2009 at 06:04 PM
thanks, i have 3 of them i will try another one and see how it goes
cjbidder22
Nov 5, 2009 at 06:23 PM
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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