That drive you are trying to recover data from is the culprit. It is drawing
too much power for your system to support it. My best guess would be a
damaged spindle motor, bad spindle bearings, bad servos for the read-write
heads, or a dead short in its controller board. There might be a way for
Data Doctors or another data recovery place to remove the platters from that
drive and put them into another drive. That tactic is both a long shot and
highly expensive. Sorry I can't be of better help.

Kenneth Whyman
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Chance favors the prepared mind.


On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:18 PM, ceares <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> The fan was just replaced and the thing is, it works perfectly fine until I
> add the 2nd hard drive . When that hard drive is removed/unhooked from
> system, computer operates perfectly.
>
> The hard drive was taken from another computer that crashed-not sure
> why-and I just need to get the data off of it. I thought I could add it as a
> slave drive and do it that way but the minute it's hooked to the computer,
> there is the shut off problem--it never even gets to boot point, just
> on-then bloop, off again.
>
> --- On Mon, 3/16/09, Thomas Mayer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Thomas Mayer <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Hard drive help-round 2
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Monday, March 16, 2009, 10:20 PM
>
> I think we may be hung up on the disk drives being a problem. However,
> the somewhat normal reason for a computer shutting down unexpectedly is
> heat. And in this case, with an early on shutdown, the heat is most
> likely from the CPU. If the CPU fan operates when first turned on, I
> would investigate the contact between the CPU, the heat sink and the
> fan. I would also check the fan operation on the video card if so equipped.
>
> Tom
>
> ceares wrote:
> > Sorry!  I feel like I'm spamming the list but I'm desperate. I
> tried using the cd hookup and same thing. I even  disconnected the main
> drive
> just in case computer can't run with 2 harddrives. Same thing. Comes on,
> then immediately cuts off.
> >
> > Power supply is only 250 watts, but that is the same as the power supply
> on the computer the drive originally came from and there were two drives
> attached to that computer.
> >
> > I can't afford a data  recovery service from what I've heard and
> I've seen a couple of posts online about swapping out parts with another
> hard drive of the same type.   Is this something that might solve the
> problem?
> >
> > If  I try this, whats the best way to protect my computer while I'm
> checking it out? Do I need a harddrive enclosure?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- On Sun, 3/15/09, Russ Poffenberger <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > From: Russ Poffenberger <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Hard drive help-round 2
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Date: Sunday, March 15, 2009, 1:01 PM
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > It sounds to me like perhaps the hard drive has more serious problems.
> > Perhaps it is drawing too much current (power) causing the computer to
> trip
> > off. It could simply be that the power supply in the computer you are
> > putting it in is too small for an extra hard driver.
> >
> > It is also possible that the IDE port on the drive is bad and scrambling
> or
> > pulling some of the lines either high or low, making it so that the main
> > drive cannot be read properly.
> >
> > To avoid the whole master/slave and shared cable issue, try seeing if
> your
> > computer has two IDE ports (many newer computer with SATA ports no longer
> > have two IDE ports, but if yours is more than a couple years old, it
> > should). Even if it is currently used for a CDROM drive, disconnect it
> and
> > hook it to the drive instead. It will not matter if it is master or slave
> as
> > long as you aren't sharing the cable.
> >
> > Also, make sure your power supply is at least 350 to 400W to make sure it
> > has enough power to handle two hard drives.
> >
> > Russ Poffenberger
> > [log in to unmask]
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of ceares
> > Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 11:01 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: [PCBUILD] Hard drive help-round 2
> >
> >
> > I tried switching jumpers around to make sure one drive was designated
> > master and the other slave and I got the same result.
> >
> > As soon as I turn my computer on, it pops off. I tried unhooking the
> master
> > hard drive, moved the jumper to designate the new(old/slave) drive as
> > master, hooked the cables and power to it only and tried to boot, still
> same
> > thing, powers on, tried to boot, powers off.
> >
> > I switched the power connectors around just in case it was the one
> connected
> > to the slave drive--same result.
> >
> > Is there anything else I can do to recover the data from this harddrive ?
> >
> >
> >
> >
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