Hard drive isn;t being detected

[krazyaznmankey]

HELP! hard drive isn't being detected

ok this is the situation. i took a hard drive from my old ocmputer that just broke down and tried installing it onto another computer to take out the information in it. when i booted up the comptuer, it owuldn;t detect the hard drive. ive tried everyting like changing the pin settings and stuff.

 

[David Alexandru]

well....i think it's simple....you should move the jumper...and if that doesn't work ...you should go and change some things in bios.and if this too doesn't work .....i have only one advice for you: change your hdd!!!

 

[krazyaznmankey]

i tried basically every jumper setting. i need 2 grab the info inside the hd but my comptuer can;t detect the hd. also how do i change settings in the bios

 

[David Alexandru]

well , it;s quite simple...enter bios...go to standard cmos features and set ide channel 0 master to cd and ide channel 2 master to hdd....if it doesn't work try to reverse them...or even change them.
If you have Sata , but i strongly dought it you should acces integrated pheripherales and change sata port 0 to sata port 0. Succes ...it will be quite an experince

 

[Samstoned]

you enter bios by hitting the delete key or the F2 key
most standard machines use the delete laptops mostly use F2
and high end ibm workstations also
in bios nav to where it says something about boot order
and advanced
ide devices bios differ from one morhwerboard manufacturer to another.
you should be able to see the drive there
as a note
the drive should be set as master and at far end of cable
when machine is on you should be able to feel the drive disc spinning inside
almost all data can be recovered no matter how bad the drive is
if you are not booting from cdrom boot order in bios should be
0 HDD
cdrom or dvd
disable floppy seek
enable all other devices