Re: USB hard drive docking station
- From: Albert Lason <amlason@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:18:21 -0700
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:12:29 -0500, "Anna" <myname@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Albert:
Can we assume that when you refer to a "USB hard drive docking station"
you're referring to a typical run-of-the-mill USB external enclosure?
Assuming that is the case...while it's probably desirable for you to have a
USB enclosure (they're cheap enough nowadays) so as to install a HDD in that
enclosure and use the device in a routine comprehensive backup system
together with your Ghost or other disk-cloning program...I don't think it
would be necessary merely to try to access the data on your problem HDD.
First of all it wouldn't be bootable in a USB external HDD even if the drive
contained a non-corrupted bootable version of the XP OS.
Why can't you simply install that HDD as a secondary HDD in your PC, boot to
your new HDD and see if you can access the data on the problem HDD that way?
Or, assuming the disk is non-defective and contains a non-corrupted bootable
XP OS, why not simply install it as your boot drive to determine if it is
bootable?
Of course, I'm assuming in all this that you have sufficient experience to
get inside your computer case to accomplish this. It's certainly not a
difficult process.
Anna
Anna,
Originally I thought about reinstalling the hard drive, unplugging the
secondary drive and trying to boot to the original hard drive to see
if that would work. I shied away from it thinking that if there was
something wrong with the hard drive I might cause more damage to the
system.
My choice of the USB hard drive enclosure was because I had read then
if I had one I could pull my hard drive and take it with me when I
visit the kids and still have my computer access.
When I originally installed the OS on the new hard drive the secondary
drive was still in place and had a mirror image generated by Norton
Ghost. The only problem was with a new hard drive I had to get a new
activation number to satisfy Microsoft. In doing so Norton Ghost did
not function properly. I still had all my data on the secondary drive
but as an example when I tried to open Microsoft's Address Book on the
secondary drive yet opened the address book on the primary drive
therefore I could not access my data (e-mail addresses).
The same thing happened when I tried to access Outlook's contacts on
the mirror image on the secondary drive it opened up Outlook on the
primary drive which was blank. Fortunately I had made a file with my
contact data that was able to recover. In the meantime I have
reformatted the secondary drive because I could not access anything
there anyway.
Would it be feasible to install only the old original hard drive if
there is no chance it would damage anything and just boot to it and
copy all data to a DVD or CD?
..
Albert
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