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Recover an old harddrive
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Posted by: spongebrain
Recently I lost my old hard drive. Not really a problem, I simply put a new one in and reinstalled my OS, which is win2000 Pro, on the new drive. The problem is that there are some files located on the old drive (Bad) that I would like to recover, if possible. So I installed the original (Bad) drive as my secondary and tried to access it. I used jumpers to configure the new drive as Master and the old (Bad) as Slave and yet Windows will not boot. I have also tried channel select on both and was sure my eide was set up properly. But no matter how I set it up Windows cannot find an operating system with the bad drive installed. The old (Bad) drive contained the OS but it is configured as "slave" and the new drive now contains the OS. I have used BIOS to both recognize and to turn off the "bad" drive, yet Windows2000 will not boot until the "bad" drive is removed. Even after physical removal, I had to run the ERD to recover my system. I thought about a "hot" install of this drive but this is very dangerous. Any ideas on how I might be able to access this drive??
Posted by: goranpaa
I can't promise this software will work.But at least it's worth a try.
http://www.softwarepatch.com/software/filerecovery.html
Posted by: spongebrain
Many thanks, I usually use V-com's SSuite file undeleter for the same thing. Works for me! But an undeleter won't work in my case. I need to install the older (bad) hardrive, boot from the new one and access the old (bad) one. But I appreciate your response. I'll try this program. Thank You!
Posted by: goranpaa
You're welcome.
Hope it works for you.
Posted by: uh...ok
FYI you absolutely NEVER want to hot or warm swap a regular IDE drive on a regular motherboard. Doing so will almost certainly fry your entire system.
Posted by: redwench
yes, there are drives made for hotswapping, but you probably dont have them. no touchy.
try a bootable linux, if that doesnt work i would cast aspersions on the bad drive itself.
Posted by: spongebrain
Thanks for your replies all. I guess my question is: If my OS is now installed on a new drive, can't I install the old drive as a slave and still boot? The system should boot from the new drive. I figured that I could then attempt to access it. I probably wouldn't be able to anyway but I'd like to try. Instead I can't even boot with the old drive in place at all.
I'l give the linux boot a try. I have a disc but I'm not too familiar with Linux.
Again thanks.
Posted by: lcousins
i cant help answer it, but to summarise the question (since the answers whilst useful in themselves dont seem to be answering the right question) -
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system boots up when new harddrive is attached by itself but not when both it and the old drive are attached. effectively attaching the old drive as a second drive is stopping the system from seeing either drive.
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Posted by: spongebrain
You've got it. Any ideas?? I'd think the system should be able to boot from the Master which now contains my OS but Windows says no OS found. I'm a pretty advanced user but this one's got me stumped. Well, Happy Thanksgiving all!!!
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