My old harddrive wont boot after replacement

So I just got a new owc mercury electra 3g and was so giddy to install it and get lion running on it that i didnt back up everything to an external harddrive. So after i got my new owc running I put my factory one back in to back it up. When I turned my mac back on it was crazy slow. It made it about a quarter of the way with backing up before it froze up. So I opened my mac back up and re plugged it in. and now it only turns on to the loading screen for 5 mins before it just gives the pop up of the circle with the line through it. I've replugged it like 4 times and its still not loading. Is all my stuff gone forever? Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks for your time.

Get an external enclosure for your old HD and see if you can boot from the SSD to copy over files and the like. Don't know what the old HD would misbehave now... but if it's damaged you could still, perhaps, rescue files were it in an enclosure.
Clinton

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Originally posted by Deathstalker
ricin,
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In addition, making unsubstantiated statements as Deathstalker did that, quote "It has already been proven that 50% of all the problems relating to Vid Cards is Power Supply Related...." is not a valid argument either. If you're going to make those sort of claims, then you should back it up with firm data...
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