alright guys ive brought a laptop of a mate thinking it just needed a reboot but it seems that the ide controller is nakered after i boot a new hard drive and same problem, so ive brought an hard drive enclosure thinking i could use it through usb but come across problems with windows on boot up.

It seems windows disables usb ports on boot up causing it to not be able to access the nessercary files on the hard drive to be able to boot.

i'm trying to use windows 7 and come across this site that changes some settings and was wondering if any one could give it a go on either windows xp like it states in the instructions or windows 7 if its the same.

Before any one has a go i've tried it myself but had no luck at all not really to good with the old programming stuff.

Thanks in advance guys