The hard drive in my old desktop finally died.
I was hoping to recover some of the data that was on it, so I installed it as the slave drive in another desktop I have but I couldn't view any of the data.
It recognized the drive like it was a new drive to the system, and asked if I wanted to format it like I was adding a new drive to the system.
Is there any way to view the data on the old drive to recover any of it, or is it all gone?
If I just try to boot the computer from the old drive it hangs up after the post screen at the windows logo.
Any help will be greatly appreciated, thanks!
GVSS
Edit - Would loading up an OS that i can boot and run form a cd like Ubuntu or Knoppix linux help me at all in this situation? would I be able to view the files and save them to an external drive?
I was hoping to recover some of the data that was on it, so I installed it as the slave drive in another desktop I have but I couldn't view any of the data.
It recognized the drive like it was a new drive to the system, and asked if I wanted to format it like I was adding a new drive to the system.
Is there any way to view the data on the old drive to recover any of it, or is it all gone?
If I just try to boot the computer from the old drive it hangs up after the post screen at the windows logo.
Any help will be greatly appreciated, thanks!
GVSS
Edit - Would loading up an OS that i can boot and run form a cd like Ubuntu or Knoppix linux help me at all in this situation? would I be able to view the files and save them to an external drive?