Slaved HD to remove and clean viruses, etc.

[roc17]

My neighbor's Dell Dimension became virus infected, etc. to the point where internet access was not possible.
I slaved the drive to another p/c and ran AV to clean - also ran SpyBot S&D and disk defragmenter. When I re-installed back into the cpu - it no longer recognized the drive. I suspect that I shouldn't have defraged it when it was slaved as it displayed no system files during the process....but that's just my guess.

Cannot break out of the F1, F2 prompt. It simply no longer sees the drive. There are many files on the drive that need to be recovered.....of course would rather have it seen as primary again. Need help.

Dell Dimension 3000 XP Pro.

Moved to appropriate forum. - Moderator Rubycon

 

[funkymatt]

this should probably be under computer help?

what F1 and F2 prompt are you referring to? Does the BIOS recognize the drive? Is it a SATA or PATA drive?

If pata, did you change any jumper settings when you moved the drive to the other system?

 

[roc17]

You're right.....I thought about computer help but figured it might be something more complicated given the steps I took after slaving it to another drive....thought maybe I somehow 'cleaned' out the boot sector or something.

Anyway......found that I must have inadvertently damaged the ribbon cable when moving things around (small gash in the rubber)....found another cable and all is fine. Thanks....