corrupted hard drive

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imthehink

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I had to reinstall windows on my other hard drive because it was corrupted on my other. My computer will not pick it up with the other hard drive plugged in. The hard drive that has the corrupted windows on it won't load at all. It just goes to where it asks if I would like to start it in safe mode etc.... I tried every mode and it won't boot to windows. It just auomatically restarts and goes right back to where it asks safe mode etc.... So I installed it windows on my other hard drive. How do I get my files from the other hard drive? I think my computer won't pick it up because windows is still on it. any help would be great.
 
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hmmm i had a similar problem like that just a week ago. After you install windows on the other one, try to boot up and see if it does a disc check. If it does, let me do a completely check, that's what happened to me and it fixed my problem.
 
I tried that. It won't pick up the hard drive at all. It only does when it's the only one connected. I can't figure out why my computer won't pick it up.
 
it could be your jumpers, check if you got one on master and the other on slave...IF you have IDE harddrives.
 
I have a similar problem

After a very convoluted repair at the shop, my computer is now running with 2 hard drives (the old one is a 160GB SATA) and the new one is an 80gb IDE) I've got Windows on this new one, the man in the shop installed it for me. But I can't read the other drive (the old one with all my data on it). Without asking too many questions, is downloading some recovery software (the stuff that allows you to go into hard drives even if they're corrupted), port all my data to my brand new hard drive (only the stuff I really need) and then format the old hard drive?
 
i got a totally different prob with my hard drive,

i recently installed windows xp on my system, but now it turns on, gets to the moving windows load screen(the colour one) shows the bsod and restarts, this keeps hqppening. what can i do to fix this problem?
 
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