Computer wont post with HDD plugged in
My neighbor called me over last night for some help with his computer. He said it blue screened a couple times and now wont do anything. I turned it on, seems to get power, but no post. I checked the monitor and video card, they seem to be working. I ended up swaping in one of my spare power supplies, but left the hard drive unplugged, figured there was no need for it at this point and flick the switch and the computer posts just fine, just no drives.
I Turn it off and plug in power and sata to his boot drive and same thing, no post. Must be a short in the drive? or am I missing something here? He backs up his data to another drive, hasnt done a backup in a few months ands stands to lose some data. I found flipping the drive over it would post, still wouldnt boot however. Is there anything short of sending the drive off for data recovery that can be done for him?
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