Was that XP or '98? -Clint God Bless Clint Hamilton, Owner http://OrpheusComputing.com
----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Carnell" < I had another smaller HD here that still has everything on it. OS & programs, etc.. Its corrupted with Internet Garbage, Viruses and such. I never did erase it. I hooked it up as a slave just for the heck of it and it showed it as drive "D".....and moved the CD Roms to "E" and "F" respectivly. The machine booted up normally. I went to Explorer and copied some songs off the 60 GB drive onto the slave drive and that seemed to work. I guess this is what makes me think I can do it. I 'll have to see when i get the other 60 GB drive and install it. Thanks, Roger C. ----- Original Message ----- From: "OrpheusComputing.com" Note that if the HD is bootable, or was bootable, it may not show up in Windows. When you have a boot sector on a HD, Windows thinks it's a dual-boot system and the HD won't show up when you boot from another drive and slave (or hook up to another controller) the previous bootable drive to copy data from it. I think in XP I was able to overcome this by going to "Computer management" and "Disk management" then converting the drive to either a "Dynamic" or that other option. Can't recall exactly. You should wait for more input on that because I can't remember if I was able to copy the data or not after converting it. (That's a long story. Last time I had to do this, my main HD lost all of its partitions and was no longer bootable nor accessible. But, Windows still saw enough of the boot record to think it was bootable and it wasn't visible in Windows except for the Device Manager and that Disk Management area. I had to run numerous utilities to 'destroy' the boot record, and then I was able to convert it under Disk Management and drag the data from it. But I don't recall to what I had to convert it to get the data). -Clint ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Carnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm going to do what you all suggested right at the beginning, wipe the drive and start over. I think i can copy his music to another HD that I'll set up as a slave, and then I'll format the original one. thanks for all your insight and comments, Its much appreciated, Roger C. ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
