data read error

I am throwing together a basic rig to replace my mothers very aged xp home/single core rig from the 50's I think.
I have a little gigabyte fm2 board, a6 cpu, win7 pro and a 160 gig wd1600js spinner drive, the drive is really old but just a work horse.
when I boot the rig with this drive in it, it posts to a disk read error message.
If I attach the drive to another rig it boots right up.
if I put another drive in the rig for my mother that rig boots right up, I am at a loss here, witch to get rid of, the board or the drive.
the poor woman is 75 and just getting her up to speed on a new operating system is going to take long enough I really want to avoid any hardware issues at all and if I keep the drive for me I don't want a failure here either.

hook it up to the working system and run a full smart scan?

this drive is so old it might not be able to, but I'll give that a go.

well, it looks like 8 years and lots of moves has taken it's toll on the poor little drive.
time to file 13 this one.

Hi there.

What were the test results of the drive - is it in that bad condition? Can you run an additional test with Data Lifeguard Diagnostics and upload a screenshot with the results and S.M.A.R.T. values so I can take a look? You can download the program from here:

http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=nXNTBQ

I'll do that tonight.

here you go.

The test results look solid - no bad S.M.A.R.T. values nor errors, and since the drive works OK when plugged to the other system I would say that the motherboard is causing the issue in this case.

why would it be with only this one hdd?
I put the rig together with another 500 gig hdd and it's as right as rain in spring.

I have it in another rig as storage to play with and I can write very large files to it and copy them back flawlessly and can even boot from it.
I can see it being the board, it's a gigabyte and I have no luck with them.

I put the rig together with another 500 gig hdd and it's as right as rain in spring.

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In the same SATA port and cable that are known good?

in the rig that it will not boot, I was and am using sata port 0 with the same sata data cable and power connector from the same psu.