So our family computer (a dell all in one) fell over two days ago after 1.5 years of service. The BIOS didn't recognize the hard drive no matter what I did... including reseating cables, etc. (I have 5 years of Carbonite... so all of my data and my wife's 300GB in photos are safe.) I have a SATA USB device and so I took the hard drive out and plugged into the USB port on her laptop... and the hard disk worked fine! Ran a checkdisk and there was a couple of "found" files... but everything else was there.
Ok so now I was thinking SATA controller (which is built on the MB). So I was bummed that I am out of warranty period and probably need to buy a new computer. I put in an older 750 GB drive I had laying around, and the drive worked fine. Installed Win 7 on it and started restoring files. Here I sit the next day and everything is running strong. (data restore will take days though I could just copy most of it from the old drive... figured I would see if Carbonite will work it out for me)
Question is... why would a drive that I can mount and get data off of not work at all as a boot device? Ideas?