Hard drive locks my computer up

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tunaman

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I am trying to pull some data off an older hard drive I have not used in awhile. It is a WD 400BB. Whenever I attach this drive to my system, it gets to the detecting hard drives spot on the bootup and then locks the computer. I have to hit the reset button to get it to response. Any ideas on how to get the data or what might be happening here?
 
defakto said:
Did you double check the jumpers to make sure they are set correctly?
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Agreed. Try the different settings for master, I have seen drives incorrectly labelled.
Try the drive on a cable with no other drives.

Try another cable.
I had a cable cause a perfectly good drive to corrupt so badly it just clicked and failed all repairs in Windows.
I used a bootble CD of HDD Regenerator to recover it.
Most here use Spinrite.
 
i tried every different jumper combination possible. I did not try a different cable, so that is a possibility. I did put the drive on its own ide cable when I was trying the different jumper settings. Anything?
 
And that goes without saying, thank you. Usually I can find my own solution to problems. I was splicing fiber optics when I was 10. This one has me stumped.
 
Check no pins on the hard disk or the motherboard are bent where the cable plugs in.
I cant think of much else unfortunately, I may do better after some sleep.

Unless the PC you are using it on is old and the BIOS doesnt support hard disks that big?
 
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