On Mon Mar 16 2009 08:11:43 Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant) wrote: > > I really need some help. I recently decided to move a hard drive, from > > a machine with a failing power supply fan to a newer machine. The > > drive is an 80 GB SATA, and worked just fine until I powered down on > > the machine it was in. > > > > After installing it in this newer box, I booted up, to find that the > > drive was undreadable. I didn't get any hard drive failure notices, > > just could not read the drive.
Does the bios on the previous motherboard enforce any sort of security? Did it perhaps enable the ATA security feature on the drive? /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */