Adding a Slave Sata HDD with Win 7 already Installed

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Hi

I have a Sata HDD that’s been pulled from another PC with Win 7 installed but it has a corrupt ‘Classpnp.sys’ file so will not boot into windows. It gets a far as the ‘Starting Windows’ logo and then hangs forever. I have tried many different repair/restore point options and nothing seems to work. All I really need is to get some files off the desktop and then I can format and re-install win 7.

Is there a way I can get the files I need from the desktop? I have already connected the HDD to my pc which I thought would show up as a slave but when I start up my pc now it (also running win 7) it hangs at the same ‘Starting Windows’ logo point. I thought it was because both HDD’s have win 7 installed and are conflicting somehow?

Any help would be great.

Thanks

Bob

 

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You need to make sure that you're booting from the right drive, sounds like your BIOS is now trying to boot from the corrupt drive.

 

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You will need to change the Boot list in your BIOS to make sure that you boot from your original HD and not the one you've just attached.