harddrive help

[masterkickass7]

a family member gave me there old pc and all i had to do is get some family pictures off the psu was dead put another one in and then i found out the mobo is dead I put the hardrive in a spare pc and it jumps to bios and won't detect the hdd it's spinning any help 

[ARikozuM]

5 minutes ago, masterkickass7 said:

a family member gave me there old pc and all i had to do is get some family pictures off the psu was dead put another one in and then i found out the mobo is dead I put the hardrive in a spare pc and it jumps to bios and won't detect the hdd it's spinning any help 

Do you have the SATA cable attached firmly?

[masterkickass7]

1 hour ago, ARikozuM said:

Do you have the SATA cable attached firmly?

it's ide

[tiberiusmoon5]

Is the harddrive SATA or IDE?

 

If IDE: there is a jumper pin you need to set as master if you want to run windows off of it or slave if you want to view it like a secondary drive.

 

if SATA: go into your bios and set the boot priority to your HDD and restart

 

[Naeaes]

Once you enter windows, search for "disk management" (or the equivalent in your language) In disk management, you need to assign a drive letters for the partitions on the drive. Once you've assigned letters, they'll be visible in file explorer like your other drives.

 

Take note of the partition sizes. There should be one or two partitions that are very small, a few hundred Megabytes. Don't assign letters for those partitions. Just the ones with data on them.

[masterkickass7]

1 hour ago, Naeaes said:

Once you enter windows, search for "disk management" (or the equivalent in your language) In disk management, you need to assign a drive letters for the partitions on the drive. Once you've assigned letters, they'll be visible in file explorer like your other drives.

 

Take note of the partition sizes. There should be one or two partitions that are very small, a few hundred Megabytes. Don't assign letters for those partitions. Just the ones with data on them.

it won't boot windows 

[ARikozuM]

2 minutes ago, masterkickass7 said:

it's ide

Do you have the pins for "master" in place? Have you checked Disk Management in your computer? Can you boot into Linux?

[Naeaes]

Just now, masterkickass7 said:

it won't boot windows 

OK. It's probably trying to boot off of the secondary drive. In BIOS, make sure your own drive is the primary boot device. If you have AHCI enabled, you can also plug the secondary drive in after you've entered Windows. Without AHCI, it has to be plugged in during POST.

[masterkickass7]

1 hour ago, ARikozuM said:

Do you have the pins for "master" in place? Have you checked Disk Management in your computer? Can you boot into Linux?

do u mean the blue ribbon ide cable

[tiberiusmoon5]

1 minute ago, masterkickass7 said:

do u mean the blue ribbon ide cable

[masterkickass7]

1 hour ago, TiberiusMoon said:

it's supposed to cover two there is cover on the second row

[tiberiusmoon5]

2 minutes ago, masterkickass7 said:

it's supposed to cover two there is cover on the second row

move the jumper to pin 7 and 8 then reboot (far left)