How do you put back a hard drive in a computer after it been removed?
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Slide the harddrive into it's slot at the front of the case and tighten screws. Do not overtighten or it will cause the harddrive to bind. Then look on the motherboard right next to the cpu chip (the fan is on top of this) for a 25 pin connector attach one end of the ribbon cable (If it is cable select it will have a blue connector on the cable) then connect the other end to the harddrive. start the computer, the bios should automatically find the harddrive, but if it doesn't you will have to go into setup, (could be the esc, delete f-2 or f-8 button) and select harddrive. Provided you didn;t change any of the jumper settings on the back of the harddrive it should work with no problems.
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You might not be able to back them up, but this is what you need to do before you buy a new hard disk to see if this one will work.\n\n1.Press F8 when it is starting up it will go to safe mode. (might not work.)\n\n2. Make sure the hard drive is properly hooked up, IDE cable Or the sata cable depending on what kind of hard drive you need to make sure it is going to the motherboard, and is connected properly there, also make sure the power connector is plugged in right.\n\nDo this though you have a small chance of getting your data back. Purchase a new hard drive, you need to know what kind is compatible with your motherboard. Then go to compusa, circuit city, bestbuy, or on the internet go to http://www.newegg.com or http://www.tigerdirect.com and buy the right hard drive. When you bought your computer you should have recieved recovery discs, (if you didnt you can order then from whoever assembled your computer for 10 bucks. Then install the hard drive, and reinstall windows. This is the time where you might have a chance to get your data back. \nPut the old primary drive that does not work in the slave drive, and it will come up in my computer.\n\nHope This Helps\n\n\n\n\nNote: This is only for a desktop computer,  and that is what i am assuming you have.
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Most external hard drives are just an internal ide drive with its own power supply. You should be able to remove the drive, set it as slave and install it in your PC. This is pretty simple. If the drive is still ok, you can then recover the data.
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Right click on my computer --> manage\n\nGo to disk management and post back and let me know if it sees the hard drive.\n\nDo you have any thing on the hard drive ( I know you said it as new ) but if you have any data on there and you wipe it, you will obviously lose it.\n\nAnyway if not then just format it in disk management and it should then appear in windows.\n\nIf thats not the case then please post back with more specific info , ie motherboard make and model.\n\nIf you need help with getting that info post back as well.
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download stella data recovery software.it will recover your harddisk data.
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A great program for recovering deleted files is MediaRecover:\nhttp://www.mediarecover.com/\nbut, be aware that it will take a while for the program to scan your hard drive and it might not recover all of the files depending on how many times the section of the disk that had a file on it has been written over.
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that depends how you lost it. if your hard drive was formated you don't have any chance to retreive it. if the data was erased you can use a HDD data recovery program such as Recovery Genius. but you won't be able to recover it if it was overwritten on the Hdd.
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If I could not restore the files...\nI would boot the system off a PE disk to gain access to the hard drive and network. Copy the personal files off, re-image the PC from a ghost image that I had previously created, and copy the stuff back.\nLess than 30 minutes to do all this. I do it every day.
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Not at all.\n\nUnscrew the harddrive and pull it out, then put in the new one.
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Your best bet is to boot from floppy or CD and just repartition/reformat the hard drive.
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Go to programs > Accessories > System Tools > System Restore
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Connect your old hard disk to the IDE slot that your CD-ROM drive is using. You can even leave it connected together with your CD-ROM drive if you want. \n\nYou just have to plug the IDE cable into both the CD-ROM and the hard disk. Set your CD-ROM as master and the hard disk as slave.\n\nGo to BIOS and see if your hard disk has been recognised. Once it is done, reboot your PC and transfer the files from the old disk to teh new one. \nUSB to IDE cables are also available which can be made use of in case you want donot want to open up your PC and play around with the peripherals and the cables.
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A PC restore will take your system back to the factory settings. During the PC restore all the information on your hard-drive will be erased, so it is essential that you get any of your important information backed up onto external media such as CD, memory key, or a zip drive.\n\nOnce you have all you data backed up you can continue with the PC \nrestore.\nTo run a PC restore please follow the below steps.\n\n1. Turn your system off. \n2. Remove all the cables from the desktop apart from the power lead, keyboard, mouse and monitor.\n3. Turn the system back on and as soon as you turn it on hold down the Ctrl key on your keyboard and as you are holding it down start tapping the F11 key along the top of the keyboard once every two seconds.\n4. This will lead you to a screen with two options, one for restore and one or reboot. You click on restore,\n5. You will notice a progress bar at the bottom of the screen counting up from 0% to 100% this is the process wiping all the data on the drive. When this process has finished it will then take you through the windows set up procedure.\n6. During the windows set up you follow the on screen instructions. It will ask you for some basic information such as setting the time and the date, picking a country and a language, giving you computer a name and a company name (you can give it any name you want). It will also ask \nyou if you want to set up an Internet connection (It is recommended that you select no at this point and do it later).\n7. When the procedure is finished it will leave you back at your Windows desktop and hopefully every thing will work as normal. You can then go ahead and install any of you own software or hardware.
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The best thing to do would be to open up the new one and "Temporarily" install the old hard drive ... heck, you might as well keep it there.\n\nCopy your DATA files (not programs, they should be reinstalled if you want any of them) to your new drive.  You can then Reformat the old drive ... it's remarkably easy to do ... the plugs only fit one way ... just make sure the power is completely off to the computer (i.e. unplug it from the wall for sure) while you've got your hands in there.\n\nDon't be intimidated ... it's very easy ... the plugs only fit one way !
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You can use software like "FinalData2", I have been in this before and helped someone here in Yahoo Answers to recover his hard drive (Check my best answers).\nIf you like I can go again with you and help you too, send me your e-mail, and mark me as best answers.\n\nXLMan
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This is quite easy.  We'll configure your existing hard drive to be a master drive and your new one to be a slave drive.  Here's how:\n\n0. Print out this guide and any other reference material you have.\n\n1. Turn off your computer.\n\n2. Pull all of the cables out of the back, including the power chord.\n\n3. Get a screwdriver and open the case.\n\n4. Have a look around inside and look for a flat (thin) but wide grey cable going from your motherboard (the big circuit board at the bottom of your case where everything plugs in to) to your existing hard drive.\n\n5. Make sure there is a spare plug on the cable.  One of the plugs will be going into your existing hard drive.  Also make sure that there is space in the metal rack where the hard drives go, and that there are screw holes in the rack.\n\n6. Unscrew the hard drive and unplug the IDE cable (the flat grey cable) and the power cable, and remove your existing hard drive.  \n\n7. At the same end where the cable went in there will be a series of pins.  These are called 'jumper' pins and they're used to determine whether or not the device is master or slave.  Two of the pins should be covered with a thin bit of plastic that joins them together - this is called a jumper.  (see the URL in the sources section below).\n\n8. Look on the case of the hard drive for a picture of which pins to cover to make the hard drive a 'master' drive.  Remove the jumper and put it back on the appropriate pins.  Use a pair of tweazers if it helps.\n\n9. Look at your new hard drive and configure it as slave (using the jumper pins, just like in step 8).\n\n\n10. Place both hard drives back into the computer in the metal racks, and remember which is which (maybe use some sticky tape temporarily to mark one of them).  Screw them both into the racks.\n\n11. Attach the master hard drive, your old hard drive, to the very end of the IDE cable (the flat grey cable).\n\n12. Attach the new hard drive to the middle plug in the cable. (see the URL in the sources section).\n\n13. Attach power cables to both hard drives.\n\n14. Put your computer case back on, but don't screw it in yet.\n\n15. Plug in your power, monitor and keyboard and turn the computer on.  Hold down the 'delete' key on your keyboard immediately.  This will take you to your computer 'bios' screen.\n\n16. Select the first option in the menu.  This should list the hard drives that have been detected.  If both hard drives are in the list then you're done.  Screw the case on properly.  If not, double check the jumper settings, the IDE cable and the power cable.  If you can't get it to work, DONT PANIC! Just take your computer to your local computer store and ask for help.
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Are you sure you want to erace your entire hard drive?\nSUGGESTION I\n1. Go to My Computer.\n2. Right-Click on the drive that you want to delete.\n3. Click Format.\n4. Check Quick Format.\n5. Click Start.\nI dont think this will work so do this\nSUGGESTION II\n1. Buy a Hard Drive \n2. Replace them