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Hi guys Thankyou for all the info, guess I'll have to chalk this one up to experience. Furry

Hi KenB Thanks for the quick response. The caddy does have it's own power supply. I don't have another hard drive to try in it. The USB port works fine with other things, my printer for example. What originally happened was that my old PC lost power whilst updating windows and when I got the power back and tried re-starting it I got the blue screen.

Hello there I had a look through the threads but couldn't see anything like this so my apologies if I missed it. My old PC finally gave up the ghost just after christmas due to being interupted whilst installing updates to windows (XP home ed). I could switch it on and it would begin to start up but always ended up going to the blue screen of death, something about missing or faulty ntsc or ntfs files or something?? After several fruitless days of trawling through tinterweb and a couple of half days spent with techies on the phone trying this that and the other, including starting up from the windows disc, I finally had to cave a buy a new PC. Now a friend of mine told me of caddies, one of which I went out and bought and connected up to my new PC. I even prefroze the old hard drive. Now when I plugged the old hard drive in and turned the caddy on BOOM it appeared to completely subjugate my new PC and sent it into the old familiar blue screen of death. When I shut the caddy down my new PC started fine and everything went back to normal. I must admit I did try it again and again the same thing happened. I guess what I'm trying to find out is 1: Is it possible to set up my new PC so that it keeps the old hard drive seperate, and 2: If my old hard drive is faulty because of some missing operating system info can the data stored on it be accessed without having to do a complete re-install which, if I understand correctly, would wipe any stored data? As a foot note I must say I have completely learned my lesson about backing up data. It is just that it would be nice to be able to get my old data back. Thanks for any help you can give. ps: Also if it isn't possible to save the data on it can the old hard drive be scrubbed so that I can use it as an external hard drive?