Topic: computer won't boot

[Simon]

Might be worth swapping the IDE cable round - maybe it's on the wrong way, and the primary and secondary are mixed up?

[zephra]

Corp It worked with me to upgrade the bios.
Still the same problem.
we nailed it down to the hard drive.
I changed the hard drive with a known working one.Booted every time
Tried to Ghost the bad hard drive kept on failing bad sectors.Tried ignoring the bad sectors.After a hour progress was nill.
Loaded windows on the new hard drive worked out perfect
Hopefully can retrieve some data on the bad hardrive will slave it again tommorow.
              Thanks for all the help

[Sandra]

Thats a strange one.
At least its sorted now  

If your IT department has it or will shell out for it try File Scavenger, I have used it and recovered data from formatted drives  

[zephra]

Is it better then norton ghost?
The problem I had was that the bad harddrive was geting worse had to rattle the cage to get it to boot.It would take 20X to get the norton ghost floppy to work because of the bad hard drive.I had this bad drive slaved to copy to the new one.I kept on getting bad sectors so we ignored them and it would have taken days to have worked after doing that.We gave up after 4 hours and installed a fresh copy of win 2000 on the new Hard drive.

[Sandra]

Its a file recovery program (not an imaging one), which may even get some data back from damaged sectors but some of it may be unusable