Hard Disk problem

[kevin_476]

My folks had a HP from the turn of the century that was dieing and they wanted me to gut... well, I wanted to gut it so I got them a new machine and have been trying to salvage what I can from their old beast. Now they tell me they need stuff that was stored on their old HD(documents and whatnot).
I tried to hook up the HD to my computer, but my HD is SATA and theirs is IDE. Now, I know that setting up a HD as a secondary slave should not be that difficult. I've seen it done, and read online walkthroughs, but I cannot figure it out. When the old HD is hooked up it boots to that one, which is not what I want. I've tried messing around with boot order BIOS, but truth be told I am more a self-taught techy and I've never really gotten the hang of BIOS. Now, the Hard Disk stopped responding.
If anyone out there can give me some tips on what I might have missed, please let me know. The data is very important and I am desperate to get it.
PS: I removed the little jumper on the HD because I was told that that is the thing to do, does it matter if the IDE HD is set to slave or not?

[Dean C]

Let me guess, someone is going to reply in times new roman with the information for a data recovery company :)

[ManagerJosh]

I'm sorta curious to know how the heck did he shove an PATA drive onto a SATA ribbon without buying an adaptor :p :D :D

Plus how the heck does a self-taught techy not be able to learn CMOS or read the lil instructions on the hard drive itself about jumper settings? :D :D :D :D

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Probably a Spam attempt.

If this is not a spam attempt, try finding a forum that deals with PC hardware issues.