If the motherboard has the same controller it might recognize it, but raid arrays can be temperamental in situations like this. There are programs that can supposedly recompile a broken raid array,...

Double check the jumper configuration, I've done this with dozens of SATA-II drives and it's always worked. You might also want to check the cables and ports incase that's the problem because a...

Depends on the game, I know a lot of people that do this to save space and allow them to use a smaller boot-drive, but it will definately effect performance on gmaes that rely heavily on HDD...

Optical drives in laptops are really proprietary. There's no guarantee that any drive, other than the model it shipped with, will work properly. Did you make sure to check compatibility on this...

Jumpers.

Is this the only drive on the cable? If you have a second hard drive, or a cd drive, on the same cable they could be conflicting with eachother. If this is the case be sure to set one to...

The hard drive light doesn't actually mean it's reading it right, sometimes it just doesn't come on.

Lets be very clear here:

Does it show up in the list of drives in BIOS?

Well, the OS is not likely to boot but it should generate an "ntoskrnl missing", maybe an "invalid boot drive slected", and probably make it to windows splash screen and fail to boot successfully.
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Don't bother using the recovery CDs, just start from scratch. Format the new drive, ghost it again being sure to transfer everything and set it as bootable with the MBR.

The problem either came...

+1 to Jbennet, if it doesn't work in any computer it has to be an issue with the external itself.

Try pulling it from the enclosure and hooking it up internally so you know if the problem is the...

Yep, There are some basic connections that you could repair yourself, at least well enough to get the data off. But if you're not a solder tech it would probably just be the USB pins you could work...

It sounds to me like you're saying scandisk detected bad sectors and now you can't access some/all of your data. Is that the case?

I've never heard of anybody recovering data off of a dead flash drive. I'd strip off the case and look at the guts of it, it might just be a broken connector that you could patch to transfer data, if...

That is true of RAID 1 (mirroring) that's one of the three basic concepts of raid (as described in my previous post) and a component of the 5 raid configurations (I think it's just 5) that are...

RAID is a standard for making multiple drives interact with each other by Stripping the drives (saving different parts of the data to different drives so you can access both for performance) Spanning...

Serial ATA is an interface standard used for communication between a motherboard and a drive (usually hard drives but SATA optical drives are becoming popular). As the "serial" component of the name...

I like travelingmans attitude that "if you don't fix it you learned something" but when it comes down to it if you have to come onto this forum and ask if it's broken, you probably don't have the...

Just want to point out that this is a very old post, this guy is done and has probably replaced the computer by now.

Laptop SATAs are not smaller, laptop ATA (IDEs) are. It will work fine and windows should sort it out easily.

You need two drives for raid, Keep it as IDE.

It sounds to me like you've got a defective SATA controller on your motherboard. See if you can find somebody who will let you borrow a PCI SATA...

Probably hundreds, but very expensive none the less.

Anything previous to windows vista will work fine plugged in via a USB enclosure or by IDE (doesn't always work with Vista since it has the option to encrypt the hard drive). I'd use IDE but USB...

I would go in through the Linux CD and check the partitions. There's a chance the install process converted the partition to ext3 to import it to linux.

I can't do it on the drives as a raid array, they seem to be freezing any OS (whether it's because of data corruption, damaged drives, or defective controller I don't know). Can I do DST on the disk...

I know I can't do a file-system check, but I could do a scan for bad sectors, which would the symptom of a failed drive.

Is it your desktops drive that "clicks" when this happens?

Even if you're keeping the game information on an external, your internal drive is still being used for system files and your swap...

The one thing that pops into my mind, since you've already done all the troubleshooting steps I'd usually suggest) is that they're just low quality drives with bad regions. Small files don't span...

Is it showing up as a drive in windows disk management? Any data recovery software should restore a lost partition with all data intact as long as the drive isn't damaged and you haven't over written...

I'm having trouble with my RAID0 array (2x250GB SATA1), I think one of the drives hay be bad/corrupted* but my system freezes when the array is enabled. I'm thinking about disabling my raid adapter...