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Ok so for an update, I popped the hard drive back into the old computer, and the computer immediately found it. No pins bent or broke, works fine under slave for my master hard drive. My new PC didn't even recognize it though. NTFS at work you think? UPDATE: Problem solved. Put old...

No hard drive in BIOS. Checked in 2 different jumper configs. I'm going to try checking the IDE pins tonight if I ever get offline

It's under the same config it was in the last computer (slave with the optical drive definately set to master). Doesn't show up in Device Manager or anything else. I might check for broken pins.

Well at first all I was trying to do was just make it an external hard drive. Then I tried just for an internal drive, that didn't work either. Now I just want my 120GB of stuff off of there without swallowing my tongue and going up to Geek Squad, lol

Hey sorry if this is in the wrong space but I'm running out of ideas. I have recently built an entirely new system (with Retail Edge), but I made sure to take out my 120GB IDE HDD out of my old computer. I tried an external enclosure (DYNEX), and it just spun the drive, Vista didn't...

Sorry, I just had to emphasize that. When you call customer support just make sure that you say that it was dead on arrival. They shouldn't have any problems, though the wait for the replacement board may take a while. Then again, if it's not packaged regularly, they should have plenty of the...

http://shop1.outpost.com/product/5457879 Yes, another 8800GT, but it's the first one I've had a chance at that was actually in stock!

The processor does come with a heatsink, a massive one at that. I couldn't find thermal paste in the box though, so that may be something you want to consider investing in (it comes with thermal strips, but still). Right now I'm settling with a 7200 RPM hard drive and 4GB PC5300 RAM. It...