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rheyL
By rheyL
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good day guys, i got some problem here

 

my friend ask me to recover some files on his hard drive

to be specific it was a 80GB Seagate hdd sata..

 

now as i connect it to my system, my system won't boot..

or if it boots it only stuck at Windows 7 loading screen.. then HANG UP..

 

i don't know what's happening..

 

any thoughts on this problem?

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Was his drive a boot drive?

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You haven't stated how you've connected the drive, but it sounds to me like the computer is trying to boot from the drive in question. If you're connecting it via USB boot your computer and then attach the drive. If you're connecting it with sata you'll have to go into the BIOS and switch which HDD it tries to load the OS from.

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If it has an OS on it, you can try making a live bootable usb linux drive and look through the files that way.

CPU: Phenom II X4 965. GPU: Sapphire Vapor-X 7770. MoBo: AsRock 970 Extreme3. Ram: Corsair Vengeance 8gb 1600. PSU: Antec BP550. HDD: 1tb Seagate Case: RoseWill Challenger. CPU Fan: Arctic Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2. Monitor: Some crap gateway 1650x1050.

   

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