HDD issues, trying to recover

[AquaFina]

At post it goes to scanning for ide...


no array is defined

and will attempt to start windows, as soon as the windos logo comes up, restarts again back at post.

I have the hdd jumper set to primary master, and once in a while it will bring windows up, but the video is not set and the usb mouse is off, but it is very rare for it to actually start windows so is there other ways for me to access this drive to try to recover some data. not sure if it is a data issue or the hdd is bad or plugged in inproperly.

 

[Samstoned]

try running from the other ide channel and see what happens
are you try to boot xp ,98 or??
how old is system
have you checked bios to see if the settings changed??
do you have a off the shelf box or a white box