broken software or broken HDD

[baconman699]

i have something going on here and its the most fucked up HDD i have ever seen i couldn't even transfer data off of it crazy thing is,it will ONLY boot up in master, i can get to the home screen then as soon as i go to my profile & sign in it will tell me windows needs to be re-activated...OK ill click OK and.....it shoves me back into the home screen...WHAT THE FUCK!? next is the fact is if you put in master and try to boot a different HDD in bios it wont even read the broken drive it just does not show up....i think it was a window XP machine but i had a lot of data on it including family pictures of my late uncle & grampa so formatting is a no-go

[Moonzy]

22 minutes ago, baconman699 said:

it will ONLY boot up in master

a PATA drive?

 

get a USB to PATA converter, and get the data off of it from a modern device

 

but if it's left unpowered for a long time, chances are the data might be corrupted.

[Sir Asvald]

When you're adding the second drive you will need to change the jumper on the HDD that is having problems. Change it to slave then boot, if that is not working I recommend getting a HDD dock or reader that reads IDE drives.

 

Something like this:

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/AKORD®-Drive-Reader-Convertor-Adapter/dp/B00EQ7UEK4

[baconman699]

55 minutes ago, Sir Asvald said:

When you're adding the second drive you will need to change the jumper on the HDD that is having problems. Change it to slave then boot, if that is not working I recommend getting a HDD dock or reader that reads IDE drives.

 

 

 

 

yea ill try the dock reader the only thing its doing is booting in master it wont accept slave i think it might be a boot virus but idk the real solution to that one besides using disc drill+dock reader

[baconman699]

by the way does anybody know what a HDD making a clicking noise means? i have one that will click and click and click then stop then continue until i turn off the PC

 

[Sir Asvald]

1 hour ago, baconman699 said:

by the way does anybody know what a HDD making a clicking noise means? i have one that will click and click and click then stop then continue until i turn off the PC

 

That means the hard drive is close to dying. You will need to replacing it as soon as possible. 

 

https://www.flashbackdata.com/hard-drive-clicking/

[baconman699]

52 minutes ago, Sir Asvald said:

That means the hard drive is close to dying. You will need to replacing it as soon as possible. 

 

 

LOVELY!!!! i can buy another cable, software, and throw away another drive!