Although i am not a computer idiot, after spending almost up to 24 hours of sleepless trying, i finally become so frustrated and have to ask for help here.
The situation is - i have a dell desktop bought in 2005, it used to work well without problems. In 2008, I added a new 1TB internal harddrive (seagate) to serve as music, video, photo etc storage. It still works perfectly without problem.
A few months ago, I bought a new computer (DIY by a local computer shop), then i unplugged the 1TB harddrive and moved it to the new computer. However, the new computer couldn't detect the drive, after some try I could only give up. Then I return the harddrive to my old desktop but the old desktop couldn't detect the harddrive too...
Now, as I boot to BIOS, I can see that BIOS detects the existence and the model of my drive, but as I continue to boot to windows, the system "forced"
me to check the consistency of the harddrive, no response for me to press "any key" to skip the test and it usually takes a very long time to do so before it continues to windows. But before I could come to the window desktop, it "freezes" in the welcome message for another long long time. In windows, I can just see the harddrive but I can't access to it, returning with a box message saying something like "I/O error......."
If I unplug the SATA cable from the harddrive and boot the computer, everything becomes normal and fast.
Can anyone help me? What I can do now? I have tried different using different SATA cable and I have even done a "slow format" and re-installed the windows...I really don't want to give up the 400GB files of my favourite.
The situation is - i have a dell desktop bought in 2005, it used to work well without problems. In 2008, I added a new 1TB internal harddrive (seagate) to serve as music, video, photo etc storage. It still works perfectly without problem.
A few months ago, I bought a new computer (DIY by a local computer shop), then i unplugged the 1TB harddrive and moved it to the new computer. However, the new computer couldn't detect the drive, after some try I could only give up. Then I return the harddrive to my old desktop but the old desktop couldn't detect the harddrive too...
Now, as I boot to BIOS, I can see that BIOS detects the existence and the model of my drive, but as I continue to boot to windows, the system "forced"
me to check the consistency of the harddrive, no response for me to press "any key" to skip the test and it usually takes a very long time to do so before it continues to windows. But before I could come to the window desktop, it "freezes" in the welcome message for another long long time. In windows, I can just see the harddrive but I can't access to it, returning with a box message saying something like "I/O error......."
If I unplug the SATA cable from the harddrive and boot the computer, everything becomes normal and fast.
Can anyone help me? What I can do now? I have tried different using different SATA cable and I have even done a "slow format" and re-installed the windows...I really don't want to give up the 400GB files of my favourite.