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Hi, i have a old hard drive that sorta stuffed up i don't know why but i don't think it's broken for some odd reason when i put it in my computer and start her up it sits at the windows 8 loading screen and thats all it does even though i have 1 SSD for os and 1 HDD already in there. would should i do?
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Did that had have an os on it before?
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attackedheart wrote Did that had have an os on it before?

No because the SSD had the os
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Did the hdd come from that computer before? Because if it came from another computer and still has windows on it, that can happen when it tries to boot more than one os. Other than that have u checked the jumper settings on it and also checked the bios?
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attackedheart wrote Did the hdd come from that computer before? Because if it came from another computer and still has windows on it, that can happen when it tries to boot more than one os. Other than that have u checked the jumper settings on it and also checked the bios?

The bios recognizes the drive, and the drive has only been used for games i know for sure
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Are the jumpers on the hdd set to slave? And is there anything u don't want to lose on this hdd?
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attackedheart wrote Are the jumpers on the hdd set to slave? And is there anything u don't want to lose on this hdd?


Sorry i don't know what that means >.< and nah nothing on it isn't important i would like to get rid of the stuff on there if theres anything
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Im guessing its a ide hdd, on the back usually inbetween the ide cable and power cable there are usually about 6 - 8 pins. Then 1 or 2 plastic clips join certain pins together to tell pc if it is a master or slave drive, usually the sticker on hdd will explain what position to put them in for master or slave. It should be set to slave.
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attackedheart wrote Im guessing its a ide hdd, on the back usually inbetween the ide cable and power cable there are usually about 6 - 8 pins. Then 1 or 2 plastic clips join certain pins together to tell pc if it is a master or slave drive, usually the sticker on hdd will explain what position to put them in for master or slave. It should be set to slave.


uh i was just looking at it and i moved it and it sound like sand was inside the drive lol i can hear something moving like sand or something but it wouldn't be.

Edit: the hdd must be dead :c
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