Ok, so. My PC, motherboard died. I've come to terms with that, that's all assured, but here's the problem. I'm attempting to check my hard drive, to make sure it's contents are still intact. To do so, I'm checking it in my brother's old PC (a Dell 8250). I'm having a few issues, however. Here's what is occuring:

It starts up with Dell screen, under the loading bar it has :BIOS Revision A01".

After that, it goes to a "Can not find Hard Disk 1, press F1 to continue, F2 for Setup" screen.
If you press F1 to continue, it will proceed to the "Start in safe mode or normal configs" screen. Choosing any of these will proceed back to the ""Can not find Hard Disk 1" screen.

Please, please please tell me it isn't dead. If it is of any help, there were previously two hard drives in the computer last time it was shut down. Also noteworthy, I removed the pin from the hard drive, so it is automatically set to master. I'm using the end of IDE 1 cable.

If any more info's needed, I'd be glad to provide. It's WinXP SP 2, but its not getting that far yet so I doubt it's of any help.