Hi, I removed a hard drive recently to pull of data from it and store it on my other computer, while that was a success and this computer detected it as soon as I plugged it in and got all of the information I needed off of it, I tried to put it back in the original computer and now it's not recognized in the bios at all and I have tried just about every jumper setting on it. When I try to install windows on it it says it's not detected and when I look at bootable devices in the bios it doesn't show up either. I don't really know what happened and I have no idea what happened to it. I don't think it's dead, but I'm lost.

Thanks in advance.

By the way, the specs on this hard drive, or at least what I can get off of it are this:

60 GB AT Maxtor D740X-6L

If it's not seen by the bios:

1. Plugging wrong
2. Cable installed wrong or bad.
3. Bad drive.
4. Bad controller

How'd it die if I just took data off of it? I'm pretty certain it's not dead, but I need a way to determine what I'm doing wrong. Plugins never changed and it's almost impossible to plug it in the wrong way as it falls out in this configuration. I really don't know what else to say.

Can you slave it back in the PC you used to backup your files? Is it working there?

Check master/slave/CS jumper position.
Check IDE cable to ensure it is securely plugged in to both motherboard and HDD connectors.
Try a different IDE cable.
Check it is getting power. Do you have a multimeter to test the power output at the molex connector?

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Getting power, have a multimeter on hand and tested it. Works as a slave on other computers just fine, but my gripe is that I reformatted it in my main PC when it was a slave to an NTFS format. Would that have anything to do with it?

NTFS is not the problem.

Is the IDE controller enabled?

Can you enter the drive type manually?

If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

M2

Now I'm getting some new message after messing with it some more. It's not a good one either.

"PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE Rom"

Weird, it is detecting the hard drive now and I think the boot order is messed up. It now lets me change the boot order of the hard drive, removable device, and some IBM with a bunch of numbers crap. What should I put first in the boot order because now it hangs after the POST.

I get the same error messages now but it does recognize the hard drive now, but it won't let me boot CDs or floppies now. What the hell? Still getting the:

"PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE Rom"

Error.

Alright, update. I have everything recognized now, hard drive, floppy drive, cd-rom, etc but now when I try to run the Windows software or even boot disks, it hangs forever and won't proceed.

This is really really weird.

Reset CMOS?

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How would I go about that? Removing the motherboard battery or what?

That is one method. Some boards have a jumper.

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Yeah, so I'm pretty sure I reset the CMOS to no avail. I don't know what's up anymore.