Old hard drive problem

[m84Degman]

So my friend gave me his old computer to clean it up so he can play warframe with me when he comes home. He has an Gigabyte GA-ep35-DS3P motherboard, Intel Q6600, OCZ DDR2 4gb and Sapphire HD6950. He had problems before he upgraded his computer, it would shut down as soon as he got into windows and I asume that was due tu overheating becouse there was more dust in the heatsinks then I've ever seen in my life xD. So now I've cleaned it up and it works.And I came to an idea, I have an old Maxtor 80gb drive from wich I would like to extract some data. I'ts and old ATA conection and the motherboard has one so I plugged it in and it woun't boot to windows it says Boot device not detected insert system drive and press enter. I've been to bios and it recognizes it there and I've set the first boot device to hard drive. Any ideas? The drive spins I can hear it.Is it the connector or the motherboard?

[DarkEnergy]

If you just want the data from it, don't try booting from it. Just boot from the normal hard drive and set the 80gb drive to a slave drive with the pins. 

[m84Degman]

that's the only drive extra drive i have

[ApolloX75]

Some boards default to booting from the older PATA controller first no matter what you do. SATA and PATA never played well with each other. Just make sure you're booting from the SATA drive in the BIOS, if it works great. If not you can always pick up a cheap PATA/SATA-to-USB kit if accessing the drive is important.

[m84Degman]

This maxtor is a PATA drive ....ill find another SATA drive and try with that  ...those usb kits are quite expensive in croatia and I only need it once ..the data is not that important but i have some stuff I would like to se again