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Hard drive causes all other IDE devices to hang

MiserlyMartin · 2008-08-17 19:45:56

Hi, I am trying to get the data off a failed hard drive from my Mothers PC to save it. I have put the drive into a good pc but when this drive is connected it will not boot into windows. It seems to causing the whole ide controller to hang, even when its on IDE channel 2 and the good HDD on IDE 1. It gets past the bios but…

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weegie.geek Posts: 3,432 Forumite

18 August 2008 at 5:11PM

I'd be looking at the PSU rather than the first dead drive killing the second one.

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