I have a home built PC with 1 IDE port on the motherboard. Recently, I noticed my HDD was running slow, so i ran Avast Anti-Virus to check for any malware. It went through the full scan in windows, and quarantined any questionable files. It then rebooted and did a pre-windows scan also. When the scan finished, my HDD no longer showed up in BIOS, and is not able to boot. I replaced the HDD with a new drive, and it works fine. I would like to save any data that I can from the old HDD, but whenever i try to hook-up the old HDD, none of the other IDE drives will be recognized in BIOS. I have a DVD-ROM and my new HDD that are currently sharing the IDE cable, but neither will work with the old HDD hooked up. Any ideas on how to save my data?
