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Hard Drive not booting up windows

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by leland16

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So my girlfriends comp was running low on space. I had a spare HD I went ahead and installed, turned it on, didnt boot up. I took it out looked at the pins and they were bent!! So I went ahead and booted her original HD back to start up Windows and it won't boot. I see the screen to access bios, but after that I get a cursor blink at the top left. No further than that. I can also see that the hard drive is being read, it shows "38000mb partition" or whatever when i repair it. This is really bugging me cus it was her computer that I messed up :(. I have tried Windows XP disc repair didnt work. Messed with jumpers didnt work. Am I missing something? Thanks in advance.

Leland

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by thumbsup2

It's possible the bent pins on the 2nd hard drive have shorted the data cable. Try a different one.

Also, have you pressed F2 (or whatever you do to get into the BIOS) and gone in to autodetect the old hard drive again?

by leland16

The hardrive is detected when I go in BIOS.
I changed the data cables and I'm still stuck on the blinking cursor screen. help me lol

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