Re: adding second hard drive after original crashed
- From: "DatabaseBen" <databaseben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:47:50 -0500
you can hook the old harddrive later on and don't need it for your new
installation.
after you complete the installation and windows works fine. you can then
powerdown your pc and hook the old harddrive up to the other available
connector on that flat ribbon cable. When you power up the pc, it should
automatically recognize this second hard drive. But if it doesn;t simply go
into your cmos/bios and use the options to help it locate all your
harddrives.
Afterwards, when you get back into windows, you should be able to see some
files and folder of the old harddrive in you file explorer.... I think you
can take it from there....
"DERMARINE" <DERMARINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:6924A2B2-F432-4AD2-8F3D-C72BB648EF45@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I know little concerning computer hard drives, motherboards, etc.
I recently got a blue screen that said "unmountable boot volume" and some
other stuff. I was told that my hard drive was toast, but I might be able
to
recover some data (pictures mainly) off of it if I got another hard drive
and
installed it on my computer. I am in the process of doing so, but want to
make sure I am not ruining the original hard drive data as I go.
I disabled the original hard drive in setup during the boot process and
installed the new hard drive, partitioned it, and now am trying to install
windows xp on it. Do I need to do this? Will this erase everything off
of
the original hard drive? Will this cause a problem when I go back and
enable
the original hard drive, having two sets of windows on my computer?
Please
let me know ASAP. Thanks in advance.
.
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