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salvaging data from harddrive
Thanks in advance for any clues,
I have a PC at work that I need to salvage data from the harddrive. The computer will not boot-up, but I would like some advice on placing the harddrive into another PC to salvage the data. I would like the PC that is working properly to use its existing boot sector from its original harddrive, then naming the second drive something like G:\, etc. These are old Win95 machines. (on unrelated note, I have a WinME PC at home that apparently lost all contents of the harddrive, so I reloaded the operating system and the machine is back running, but is there a way to see if any files that are apparently lost are REALLY lost? The 20Gb harddrive says that 17Gb are free which is twice what I was used to seeing, so I'm assuming that the files are gone... ? Would a defrag do anything?) Thanks for any clues, Brian |
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Campbellbrian wrote: Thanks in advance for any clues, I have a PC at work that I need to salvage data from the harddrive. The computer will not boot-up, but I would like some advice on placing the harddrive into another PC to salvage the data. I would like the PC that is working properly to use its existing boot sector from its original harddrive, then naming the second drive something like G:\, etc. These are old Win95 machines. Set the jumper to slave and connect it to the same cable as your boot drive. The drive should appear as D. (on unrelated note, I have a WinME PC at home that apparently lost all contents of the harddrive, so I reloaded the operating system and the machine is back running, but is there a way to see if any files that are apparently lost are REALLY lost? The 20Gb harddrive says that 17Gb are free which is twice what I was used to seeing, so I'm assuming that the files are gone... ? Would a defrag do anything?) You probably lost any chance of recovering any files when you reinstalled windows. -- Mike Walsh West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A. |
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