PC will not boot, but gets past post...

[HydroSqueegee]

Im working on a PC here at work, and it boots, detects all hardware, gets past post just fine, but once it gets past post, it restarts.
Ive isolated the problem to the hard drive. No matter what PC i put it in (all identical systems), it will do the restart thing. If you slave it to another drive and boot off the primary, it will load up into windows and you can actully access everything on the borked drive. so its not actually dead.

Now... how in the hell can i fix it so the borked drive will boot again?

 

[00fil00]

is it a new HDD or has it started acting funky recently? is it SATA or IDE? if IDE, is it set as the primary IDE drive? with master settings?

 

[HydroSqueegee]

its a PC that has been working just fine for the past month. today, the user came in, turned it on, and it just kept restarting over and over again.

 

[MjrStryker]

I've heard something about drives that are beginning to go bad will still function but they take longer to get setup at startup. I believe a lot of older BIOS settings had a function that would add a delay before booting from the hard drive, giving it extra time to initialize. Try seeing if their BIOS has that option, and in the meantime probably want to start looking for a new HDD imho.