vertigo130

Okay so here's the spiel.

A buddy of mine was having problems with his computer (i.e it had a bunch of viruses on it etc...). So i put a fresh hard drive in his machine, reformatted it, and set it up without any problem. He has some files on his old hard drive he still wants (like pix of his kids and stuff), so i take the hard drive home and decide i'm gonna try to turn it into a slave drive. I set the jumper on my hard drive to master and the jumper on his old hard drive to slave. I plug in the cables, turn on the pc, and Windows XP loads fine. The problem is that i can't see my buddy's hard drive. Now I did make a slave drive one a while ago, and i can't remember if there was something i missed or a setting i need to change. So if anyone has any opinions on what i did wrong, or if anyone has a better solution for getting these files of his hard drive, please let me know. thank you.

linderman

Most likely what you are experiencing is the lack of hard drive parameters written to your system thats why I personally am no big fan of setting up a drive with disk management. When you partition and format a drive with disk management it writes your slave drives allocation table and sector info to the boot drive of the computer in which it was "set-up" they when you try to transplant the drive your machines bios cant find any "info" on how to use the drive >>>> the bios needs to find the allocation table and know where the first sector starts and partitions end etc

you will either have to use the original computer to recover the data or use a utility like [b]Boot It NG [b] to "fix" the lack of drive parameters >>> this can be done without losing data the utility is free for 30 days trial period

dont use this unless you are a fairly well experienced computer wizard >>>>> if you have a good understanding of partitions and formatting then give it a whirl
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