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by xmanz

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Hello all im looking for some help here.
i think ive used up my nine lives on this one.

i was firstly messing with the thought of moving vista os from ata to a sata drive and somehow in a partitioning program ive lost all connectivity with the hd its a wd 500 sata
the os didnt live on this drive
now the thing shows in bios correctly
but not only will it not show in vista i cannot boot vista hd with htis drive connected...also cannot run hd tools from bootable disk they fail to start with this connected

when disconnected i can boot vista
but hotplugging it doesnt make it show to anything.........any help really appreciated tia

btw even vista cd cant boot to a safe/repair mode with it connected

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by rob miners

prepared with a Partition the same size as the old Partition. Was the Imaging software that you used compatable with Vista. When you get it across it is going to require a Repair/Install. It would have been a lot easier to install it.

by xmanz

hi the 500 hd wasnt new it had 4 partitions on it but it was boot drive the boot drive is an 80g ide so as i was messing with paragon in vista i tried to make space for a swap over and something went bad.....

if i got hold of a sata/usb do you think it may see this drive?

by rob miners

shouldn't have to do that. Make sure that the Sata Drive is on Sata0 or Sata1 depending on your board. Remove the 80 GB IDE and Boot from the Vista DVD. Try doing a Repair Install.

by clarkd038

It would pick it up if you use a hard drive enclosure, via usb.

From there i would just repartion that hard drive and either reinstall the os on it or use a cloning software, I personally use sata usb ghost.

by xmanz

Just like to thank you ppl for the info
i dloaad a linux live cd and ran testdisk and photreg allthough i could get any data wort having back inow have acces to format hd and partition off.....not sure how the data gots so fragged found plenty but all bits..!!!!

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