I have an old IDE hard drive that has a broken Windows install on it. It just won't boot up, and I've tried a variety of solutions. That's fine, I really just need a few files on the hard drive.
I have a computer that uses a SATA connected hard drive. It's a working PC. I would like to connect the old IDE hard drive to that compute and basically browse through the file system, grab the files, and copy them to my existing computer.
My problem is with my few attempts to connect the IDE drive I would get Boot Disk Failures and so forth. I guess it's trying to boot from the IDE but I'm not really sure.
Any help would be appreciated, Thanks!
Best Answer
Your BIOS should have a boot menu. From there you can toggle boot order across a myriad of devices (IDE, SATA, USB, removable media, etc). Just make sure the drive you WANT to boot from is higher in priority to the wonky IDE drive.