I'm capable enough to know the jumper settings and all, but thankyou. It just seemed to be some odd fluke, maybe the guess about mobo configuration was correct, because setting it to slave and using with my brother's ran fine, and all the data is there. Thanks for all the help guys.

And for EVP, the lights on the mobo werent even on, while I could heard the HD turning and what not. So fairly sure the mobo is blasted.