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my motherboard died
Hello everyone,
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Old Computer = dead Motherboard E-Machines T2042 Windows XP Hard drive interface = ATA ??? 40 pins blah blah blah New Computer E-Macines T3604 Windows Vista Hard drive interface = Serial ATA This may be a bit long winded but I want to be sure everyone can understand the problem and what I have done to try to rectify the problem. Here goes, My original hard in the T2042 died so I bought a Seagate 120gb Internal Ultra ATA/100 Hard Drive-ST3120026A-RK Installed and everything went fine. I purchased another same drive for extra space. Now my mother board blew and the new pc T3604 is compatible with only Serial ATA drives. I want to get the data off of my 2 purchased hard drives. here is what i have tried . in the T3604 I have only one cd drive but space for 2 the ribbon is the same as the one used in my old pc for the hard drives so I tried to set one of the purchased drives as a slave drive connected to the cd drive. The computer only then boots at a screen that askes me if I want to restart windows normally or at last known working configuration, or in safe mode and maybe one or two more options. I have tried to allocate what drive to boot from in the bios system but to no avail. I have tried using my moms old pc which is a HP and running windows ME I installed the installation disk for the hard drive and everything goes just fine until it tells me that I need to erase the Partition or data (Whatever it says) before I can continue to install the drive I have called Seagate, E-Machine, Geek Squad but noone can seem to help. You are my last hope before I have to spend another few hundred dollars to have someone put everything on disks. I really dont want to do that considering I just spent 400 for a new tower. Thanks everyone, Shannon |
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Shannon wrote: Hello everyone, Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Old Computer = dead Motherboard E-Machines T2042 Windows XP Hard drive interface = ATA ??? 40 pins blah blah blah New Computer E-Macines T3604 Windows Vista Hard drive interface = Serial ATA This may be a bit long winded but I want to be sure everyone can understand the problem and what I have done to try to rectify the problem. Here goes, My original hard in the T2042 died so I bought a Seagate 120gb Internal Ultra ATA/100 Hard Drive-ST3120026A-RK Installed and everything went fine. I purchased another same drive for extra space. Now my mother board blew and the new pc T3604 is compatible with only Serial ATA drives. I want to get the data off of my 2 purchased hard drives. here is what i have tried . in the T3604 I have only one cd drive but space for 2 the ribbon is the same as the one used in my old pc for the hard drives so I tried to set one of the purchased drives as a slave drive connected to the cd drive. The computer only then boots at a screen that askes me if I want to restart windows normally or at last known working configuration, or in safe mode and maybe one or two more options. I have tried to allocate what drive to boot from in the bios system but to no avail. I have tried using my moms old pc which is a HP and running windows ME I installed the installation disk for the hard drive and everything goes just fine until it tells me that I need to erase the Partition or data (Whatever it says) before I can continue to install the drive I have called Seagate, E-Machine, Geek Squad but noone can seem to help. You are my last hope before I have to spend another few hundred dollars to have someone put everything on disks. I really dont want to do that considering I just spent 400 for a new tower. Thanks everyone, Shannon The simplest way to transfer data from an old hard drive to a new hard drive, without having to figure out how to make the connection (or without junking the data in the old HD), is to use an external USB/Firewire HD enclosure. |
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"Shannon" wrote in message oups.com... Hello everyone, Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Old Computer = dead Motherboard E-Machines T2042 Windows XP Hard drive interface = ATA ??? 40 pins blah blah blah New Computer E-Macines T3604 Windows Vista Hard drive interface = Serial ATA This may be a bit long winded but I want to be sure everyone can understand the problem and what I have done to try to rectify the problem. Here goes, My original hard in the T2042 died so I bought a Seagate 120gb Internal Ultra ATA/100 Hard Drive-ST3120026A-RK Installed and everything went fine. I purchased another same drive for extra space. Now my mother board blew and the new pc T3604 is compatible with only Serial ATA drives. I want to get the data off of my 2 purchased hard drives. here is what i have tried . in the T3604 I have only one cd drive but space for 2 the ribbon is the same as the one used in my old pc for the hard drives so I tried to set one of the purchased drives as a slave drive connected to the cd drive. The computer only then boots at a screen that askes me if I want to restart windows normally or at last known working configuration, or in safe mode and maybe one or two more options. I have tried to allocate what drive to boot from in the bios system but to no avail. First, triple-check to make sure your boot sequence is set correctly in the BIOS. You should be able to set a boot order by type of boot device (floppy, hard drive, CD-Rom, network, etc.), and then further select a specific boot device, also. (in other words, if hard drive is first on boot list, you should also be able to select WHICH hard drive to boot from). If that doesn't work: With T3604 powered off and unplugged from the wall outlet, disconnect cables from back of original (SATA) hard drive in T3604. Also disconnect data (IDE) connector from back of CD drive and any other drive it is connected to. Take two seagate hard drives. Jumper one as master (the one that windows is installed on). Jumper the other one as slave. Put the master disk on the FAR end of the IDE cable (the one that you borrowed from the CD drive). Put the slave in the "middle" of the IDE cable (the one that you borrowed from the CD drive). Be sure to remember to hook up power connector to Seagate hard drives. You don't necessarily have to mount these seagate hard drives in the case yet, but I'd suggest you do that, at least temporarily (with one screw on each side). Now you can plug in your computer and try to boot it. Chances are, it will not boot correctly. You may have to do a repair install of windows XP (temporarily install CD-Rom drive jumpered as "slave" in middle of IDE cable to do so, then replace with slave seagate hard drive). As long as you don't format any logical drives or repartition any hard drives, your "data" should survive a repair installation of windows XP. As soon as you get windows XP to boot from the Seagate hard drive, then you are all set. Transfer your data to a flash drive (USB memory stick) or... 1) Copy all data files from the windows drive on the seagate hard drive to the OTHER seagate hard drive. 2) Use windows explorer to 'explore' the slave seagate hard drive to verify all data files are where you think you put them. This slave hard drive will likely show up as logical "drive D:", though it could be any other letter higher than C: 3) Turn off computer and unplug it from the wall outlet 4) Disconnect both seagate hard drives. 5) Jumper CD-Rom drive as "master" and hook it up to the end of the IDE cable. 6) Put "slave" Seagate hard drive on middle connector of IDE cable 7) Set "master" seagate hard drive aside for the moment 8) Hook up SATA hard drive power and data cables 9) Plug in computer and turn on. 10) System should boot from SATA drive now and auto-detect and install a new hard drive (the seagate slave, with your data files on it). Good luck, -Dave |
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"Shannon" wrote in message oups.com... Hello everyone, Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. As ghostrider says plug one of the drives into this... http://www.eclipsecomputers.com/prod...KI-C35SI&af=50 It`s what i use as a pluggable drive, they are Excellent. Make sure the drive is set to Master, and your machine will find it when you plug it in. Always use the `safely unplug` method of disconnecting it !!. |
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thank you all I will try any and all of these solutions and get back
as to which one worked again thank you all very much |
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