I tried the Ultimate Boot CD. Boy, that website is hard to navigate, so many ads. Anyway, I'm sure I downloaded and burned the correct files. However. my son's pc isn't even reading the cd rom.
In between all of our conversations I've been running all the tests from F12 Boot Sequence, and every single thing passed.
I'm going to enter unknown territory now. I've got the cover off of son's computer and I've located the hard drive. I have a little experience opening towers, I've installed memory, sound and video cards in the past.
But, I'm really going to need help on this one.
I googled "slaving a hard drive" and did find a website with good, real-life pictures. Now I'm nervous. I just want to clarify some things with you Lurks.
The picture website, shows installing the bad hard drive into another computer and explains using the wide cable from the bad hard drive to connect to the good hard drive.
I want to use my laptop, instead of actually installing the bad drive into my old pc. Is there going to be a place on the bad hard drive to plug in the SATA/IEDE (is that the wide cable?).
I'm game and want to try to do this, even if it doesn't work-but if I can get the sonny's files back that would be even better.
As always thanks for your help.