I put in a second hard drive as a slave on my pc. When I turned it on, the bios completes and then all I get is a blinking cursor. No windows start up, nothing. So I took the harddrive out and get the same thing. I ran a scan disk, a memory test and upgraded the bios (just because I was getting desprate), and got no errors, but still can’t boot up. The bios recognizes the orginal hard drive (and the second one when I had it hooked up). I can’t figure it out. The drive is a Western Digital 160 GB. Please help, I really don’t want to have to run data recovery on it.
sorry to state the obvious,
but
is your boot drive set to master (possibaby with slave present)