Hard drive crashed need some advice

[liamcrane]

hi guys had a stressfull morning!! I think my HD has died this morning i was updating my footy manager game with the official patch it came up with an error and restarted my pc since then i cant boot up! i have tried booting into safe mode gets to the desktop then restarts, everytime you try and boot up it just restarts. I put in my xp oem cd to try and fix it but when that loads up the files it keeps saying certain files are corupt so the installation fails , luckly i have another HD installed on my pc with windows 7 on it i never use it so i ripped the old one out and when i boot from the cd this time its fine with my other HD so im in the process of installing xp on my new hd but i have a few things id like to no

My xp is oem edition so will i be able to install it on the new HD?

Im gonna lose all my itunes as well i have all my songs on my ipod touch i guess there is no way to recover them?

Relly appricate any help

 

[The Mad Rapper]

Once you have your new HDD installed and have installed the OS then set the old HDD as slave (using the jumpers near the power connector) and then install Recuva. It's made by the same people that created CCleaner and Defraggler. Point it at your old HDD and it will recover whatever files you tell it to, presuming of course that they haven't been overwritten with new data.

HTH.

 

[liamcrane]

cheers mate i will give this ago how do i go about setting the hd as slave? could i not just plug it in and see if it comes up in my computer when i boot up from my new HD?

 

[liamcrane]

sorry to be a pain installed xp on new hd no probs i connected my old hd and when i go into my computer it comes up with all my files on it just want to no the best way to transfer all my music etc to my new hd? copy and paste best option?

 

[jim5000]

If the files are showing up in windows then all you need to do is copy and paste them to your new harddrive.

Copy everything you want across and format the old disk, then run scandisk on it. Then you can do what I do which is keep all personal data (games, saves, mp3s and pictures, videos, drivers etc.) on the second disk. If the primary disk fails or windows gets corrupted and wont start you just format + reinstall the OS on the main disk and carry on as normal.

 

[The Mad Rapper]

Once you've copied the files over, I'd reformat the slave drive just for peace of mind. Use the slave as a storage area for your files, but make sure it's also backed up to DVD etc.

Sorry I didn't see your later posts, was busy late yesterday.