Greg_M
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Right ive set up my new PC.
Gone to transfer all my stuff from my old HD ontomy new on. IDE to SATA
but othing, it just claims the old HD isnt formatted and i cant get anything off it.
IS there any way to recover all the files on it?
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Andrew
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Did the old HD die in the old PC?
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_Allan_
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Could try norton ghost to get an image of the old HD and copy it across. Unless the old HD was knackered in which case you'll have to add it as a secondary HD and see if anything can be accessed.
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Greg_M
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nope, it worked fine, it came up the first time i booted and i started copying over. but it came up with an error and hasnt worked since
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Andrew
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Have you set the jumpers so it acts as a slave?
Windows XP should run a chk disk one it detects a second drive with data. Not really experienced Vista.
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Batmanman
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I had a similar problem with an IDE hard-disc. A program named "testdisk" sorted the problem pour moi  . It's free, so you should be able to find it online. It's a little bit complicated, i would advice looking at the Readme files (there is a different readme file for every scenario - you will see what i mean)
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_9_96_21396.html
[Edited on 19-11-2007 by Batmanman]
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Greg_M
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quote:
Originally posted by Andrew
Have you set the jumpers so it acts as a slave?
Windows XP should run a chk disk one it detects a second drive with data. Not really experienced Vista.
all the tests that xp tries to do fail.
lookslike its dead as even testdisk doesnt work
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_Allan_
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Forget using it as a boot disk then, what happens if you add it as a secondary drive?. Can you access any files on the drive?.
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Greg_M
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quote:
Originally posted by _Allan_
Forget using it as a boot disk then, what happens if you add it as a secondary drive?. Can you access any files on the drive?.
no cant access anything. dont want to book from it. or use it again really
i just need everything off. but a cant get at it. its comes up in my computer, but when i try to open it just says the drive isnt formatted
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Batmanman
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does it say something like "volume label is not formatted, would you like to format now?"
Cause if it does it's the same problem i had, and i suggest taking a gander at my previous post 
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Greg_M
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yeah it does.
ive tried the tst disk and it just freezes and doesnt seem to do anything once i select the disc.
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Batmanman
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hmm... IT does take quite a while.. are you sure it is freezing? and not just taking ages?
there is another program which is quite good, but not free (can be torrent'd) "stellar pheonix"
If that program hangs aswell then i would have to say the hard drive is too far gone
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Greg_M
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managed to get it going, but its says it's going to take 109hours to transfer it over. anyway i can speed it up?
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Greg_M
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tried to make a back up using nero aswell. starts fine and then just comes up with an error at same point each time. really need this stuff of there
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_Allan_
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You tried norton ghost to take a ghost image of the drive?.
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