At 07:39 PM 11/6/2003, Carl Donsbach wrote: >You could try temporarily removing the new XP hard drive from the new >machine, and installing and booting from the old ME hard drive. (You won't >need to completely remove the new drive, just plug the data and power >cables into the ME drive.) It should boot, but will spend some time >looking for drivers for the new hardware, so you'll probably need your ME >install disks. Once that is done, try copying the files to a zip disk or >burning a CD.
Oh, I really think this is not the right way to go about this. For starters, this doesn't gain you anything -- it doesn't make the files any more accessible. And you have all the additional problems of trying to get this drive to boot on the new machine, and the added strain on the drive which this causes.
No, if this really is a failing hard drive (which I strongly suspect), your best bet is to try to get your important data files off it as quickly and easily as possible.
That was the idea. Gain access to the files on the old hard drive, move them onto another medium, as quickly and easily as possible, right? Boot from the old drive, copy the files, then toss the drive. Very simple really, unless the old drive is already shot.
Yes, it does put a strain on the drive, good point! It is also possible that the jumpers are misconfigured, and you may want to continue experimenting with that, which might put *less* strain on the drive, depending on how many downs and restarts you have to do. Somewhere I got the impression that this had already been tried, which was why I made my suggestion; I have run into hard drives that simply would not work together.
The advantages of the quick and dirty solution I suggested are that it almost always works, it usually doesn't take very long, you don't have to worry about jumper configurations, and you only have to spin the drive up once. But by all means, try the jumpers first, if you haven't already.
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