Urgent PC help needed

[him]

Hey need some help...got home this morning and my PC was rebooting itself dont know what happened it was just rebooting itself. I Check the floppy and it seemed to be fine so i figured i got a virus or something on the hard drive only thing is i didnt want to loose all my data on teh other drive by reformating it so i went out and purchased a new drive and i installed it. I tried to run the new drive as a master and the old one as a slave but when i connect both drives i neither one is recignized in the CMOS but with only the new drive it gets recoginized now my question is how do i go about getting the data off my old drive?

[cache]

eject the floppy. restart.

let me know if it boots to windows after that.

[thesnake]

you more than likely got them both jumpered as masters. Set one to master, one to slave, recan once you drop in the bios.

[shenoyp]

If your system is rebooting when you connect to the net... there might be a probablity that its infected by the "sasser" work!! If thats the case... you can get a scanner and fix for it on the norton site!!

[him]

If your system is rebooting when you connect to the net... there might be a probablity that its infected by the "sasser" work!! If thats the case... you can get a scanner and fix for it on the norton site!!

Wouldnt be a problem is i could boot up the hard drive. Heres what ive tried so far

1: Set my new drive to master and old to slave when i got to CMOS neither drive shows up
2: Set my new drive to slave and old to master both drives show up...so then i go to boot from the slave drive thats working and what ever was on the first drive made its way to the second drive and both were rebooting by themselves.
3: i reformatted the new drive and was going to try and run it from a different IDE cable probably do that tomorrow. After i back up my files cause it took me about 2 hrs to get my pc back the way i wanted it...now i dont have any pics or music which suks.

Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated

[shenoyp]

What is your boot sequense in the CMOS

The drives being master or slave is only for IDE controll... not to determine boot sequence!!

[him]

What is your boot sequense in the CMOS

The drives being master or slave is only for IDE controll... not to determine boot sequence!!

IN CMOS you can set a priorty to your drives i set teh new drive to have the priority over the old drive my boot sequece is such...floppy, cd-rom harddrive.

[PACIFICBUSA]

I am totally lost here...

Soooo.....

[DAB]

I am totally lost here...

Soooo.....

Why isn't that bunny shaved?

[cache]

I am totally lost here...

Soooo.....

Why isn't that bunny shaved?

or hairless dog?

[Mr Brown]

Here ya go Pac.........

[BaybeBusa04]

I am totally lost here...

Soooo.....

Actually hun there are TWO pancakes on his head.

[thesnake]

[thesnake]

btw snakey called it right on the initial issue...

[thesnake]

[NearDeath]

What is your boot sequense in the CMOS

The drives being master or slave is only for IDE controll... not to determine boot sequence!!

IN CMOS you can set a priorty to your drives i set teh new drive to have the priority over the old drive my boot sequece is such...floppy, cd-rom harddrive.

Not a computer guy that is for sure...

(Not that there is anything wrong with that.)

[PACIFICBUSA]

I am totally lost here...

Soooo.....

Why isn't that bunny shaved?

Now THAT's an interesting idea!!

I wonder if there'll be a huge demand for hairless bunnies...


Come to think of it...I'm sitting on a gold mine!!!! Heeere bunny bunny bunny!!!

[PACIFICBUSA]

I am totally lost here...

Soooo.....

Why isn't that bunny shaved?

or hairless dog?

yessireee....that is one UGLY dog, but endearing in an odd way.

[PACIFICBUSA]

Here ya go Pac.........

I think he missed a spot....

[PACIFICBUSA]

I am totally lost here...

Soooo.....

Actually hun there are TWO pancakes on his head.

you know, I never really noticed that....I always thought it was a thick pancake.


Leave it up to woman to show a man he's blind.