Win XP and Slave HD, Advice, Help.

Daff_Duck · 28 Aug 2012 at 17:00

Newbie to all this so am asking peeps on here for a pointer in the right direction.
I want to get some info off me pooped HD (on a partition). So, what I thought was if I get the HD and put it into a machine which already has a HD and OS and set it up as a slave HD will the OS pick it up?
If so will I be able to get access to the data I have on this HD (I have been able to see the data on this drive when I AS), but haven't been able to get it off as the moment I try to transfer anything the original PC just rebooted and then on booting back up the OS was lost, have to go through the whole process again.

Would I have to set the jumpers up on the HD to become a slave? Or is that not needed? Sorry for asking so many questions just want to know if the idea is right first

HyperSonic · 28 Aug 2012 at 17:13

provided the HDD is not physically damaged you'll have no problems getting data off it, you may need to set the jumpers to slave, depends on which IDE cable you attach it to.

If both HDDs are on the same cable and the other HDD is master then youy will need to set the broken HDD to slave

If you have another IDE cable and a spare IDE connector on the MB then you can connect the broken HDD to that and you will be able to leave the broken HDD as master

HyperSonic · 28 Aug 2012 at 17:16

depending on the PC you may have to tell the BIOS that you've put a new drive in there too

Daff_Duck · 28 Aug 2012 at 17:59

HyperSonic said:
depending on the PC you may have to tell the BIOS that you've put a new drive in there too

Thanks to both for the reply, in the BIOS what do I need to do just ask it to detect another IDE device?

HyperSonic · 29 Aug 2012 at 08:23

if its an old'ish pc you'll probably have some form of HDD auto-detect in the BIOS setup.

I'd say just go through each bios page until you find something refering to HDD setup and have a good look at it - most BIOS arent that hard to figure out

bledd · 29 Aug 2012 at 11:03

I'd just leave it in the current PC

On a working machine, download Ubuntu and burn this to a CDR.

Chuck it in the first machine and boot from the CD, you'll have a working 'live' Ubuntu OS where you can copy/paste your files from the hard drive onto a USB stick or over the network

Daff_Duck · 29 Aug 2012 at 15:16

bledd. said:
I'd just leave it in the current PC

On a working machine, download Ubuntu and burn this to a CDR.

Chuck it in the first machine and boot from the CD, you'll have a working 'live' Ubuntu OS where you can copy/paste your files from the hard drive onto a USB stick or over the network

Thanks once again, I did think of that but I didnt have a NAS box or drives big enough to store 100GB of data (was all me music and video files collected over many years hence me reason for wanting to get them back)

Anyway I slaved the drive and yipee got all me data off (I had purchased a NAS box) somewhat after the horse had bolted I admit. But now my data and everyone else s is nicely tucked up.

Big up to those who helped