About two days ago my brothers PC would no longer turn on. After doing a little bit of investigation (it's a 8 year old gateway) I came to the conclusion that the power supply went out. Fortunately for him, I have a much newer gateway that I was able to give him. However, when I tried placing the HD from the broke down PC to the new PC something strange happened. I still had the master HD connected with sata cables (new PC I am talking about) and then I put the old HD (from broken pc) via IDE. The first two times I did this the computer would detect my brother's HD and it would load his desktop but then the computer would freeze and the mouse would not work.
The third time I turned the new PC on the HD was no longer detected. It was also around this time that I started to smell something burning... 😱
Now, when I try to place the old HD into other computers they will not detected it... no matter what jumper settings I use or cables. I still don't think that the HD burned out or something. Besides messing with jumper settings, cable, and BIOS settings, what could possibly be going on?
Help would very much be appreciated!
The third time I turned the new PC on the HD was no longer detected. It was also around this time that I started to smell something burning... 😱
Now, when I try to place the old HD into other computers they will not detected it... no matter what jumper settings I use or cables. I still don't think that the HD burned out or something. Besides messing with jumper settings, cable, and BIOS settings, what could possibly be going on?
Help would very much be appreciated!