Desktop does not boot with HD plugged in ...now.

[brokengod]

Dear Chaps and Chapettes,

In the process of assisting my brother to assemble his computer before he moves interstate, I swapped a cdrom into his box for ease of installation of stuff.

After returning the drive to my machine, I found that my machine would not boot, in fact it seemed no power was reaching the MB. I swapped in his power supply which seemed to stimulate some action, but as he was heading off and it was late we tested it no further and I assumed a new power supply would do the job.

Next day, a new power supply was installed and everything set up to go and .... no juice. After some experimentation, I determined that when the HD was plugged with power, then nothing would happen. Every other periph and a spare HD worked, but if the original HD was hooked into the power circuit, then nothing. This was replicated on another machine.

If any one can tell me what is likely to have happened and if it would be possible to retrieve the data somehow. Every computer I try to slave it into does the same thing. My wedding photos (2 weeks ago) are on there and my wife is bigger than me...

Thanks in advance.

brokengod

 

[mijan]

The drive may have a faulty controller.If the worst comes to worst try

http://www.computer-recovery.com

or

http://www.zienex.com

my bosses used them for recovery data of a dead drive, they may be of help to you.

 

[Lemon13]

check the hdd controller card for a shortcut, maybe you lost a screw or so.
have you tried to but it up while it´s not mounted to the case?