First, thank you for providing such a great forum. This may be my first post, but this forum has helped me many times.
However, I find that now I must request additional assistance -
I finally built a new computer earlier this year, so i pulled the harddrive out of my old, decrepit computer before getting rid of the tower. I now find that i need some files that were on my old hard drive, and quickly(taxes ) The hard drive in my old computer was ide and my new one is using sata. The new tower does have a connection for ide though. However, if i hook both hard drives up, it tries to use the ide hd as the primary, and all i get is a black screen.
Now, to make things more interesting - about a year before i finally gave up on my old cpu, the boot sector on my hd had actually gone out. Rather than buy a new hd at the time, i pulled a smaller hd out of a tower that i had sitting around and used it as the boot drive, and hooked up my main hd as a slave drive. So, even if i wanted to just hook up my old hd and access the files, I can't.
So, the question - if i hook up the ide hd with my sata hd, how do i make it boot to the sata drive? note - when i do hook up both drives i can't even get to the bios. It goes straight to a black screen, and you can hear the old hd trying to boot but failing.
Thanks in advance for all your help.
However, I find that now I must request additional assistance -
I finally built a new computer earlier this year, so i pulled the harddrive out of my old, decrepit computer before getting rid of the tower. I now find that i need some files that were on my old hard drive, and quickly(taxes ) The hard drive in my old computer was ide and my new one is using sata. The new tower does have a connection for ide though. However, if i hook both hard drives up, it tries to use the ide hd as the primary, and all i get is a black screen.
Now, to make things more interesting - about a year before i finally gave up on my old cpu, the boot sector on my hd had actually gone out. Rather than buy a new hd at the time, i pulled a smaller hd out of a tower that i had sitting around and used it as the boot drive, and hooked up my main hd as a slave drive. So, even if i wanted to just hook up my old hd and access the files, I can't.
So, the question - if i hook up the ide hd with my sata hd, how do i make it boot to the sata drive? note - when i do hook up both drives i can't even get to the bios. It goes straight to a black screen, and you can hear the old hd trying to boot but failing.
Thanks in advance for all your help.