- Jan 10, 2014
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Ok, I am terrified I may have just lost all of the pictures of my kids from the last 3 year. Why I didnt have a back up in the first place is a different store all together.
A couple weeks back, I decided I wanted to update my 8 year old Dell Studio 540 with a new GPU, PSU, and CPU. I installed everything (updated the q8200 to q9650). After playing around with it, decided I wanted to build a new Windows 8 gaming PC. I ordered all the stuff off newegg and put the computer together. I used the NEW PSU & GPU (Nvidia GTX760) that I had purchased for my old DELL Studio 540.
Not knowing that my hard drives from my old computer are configured in RAID from the factory (2x 700MB 7200 WD HDD's) I removed them from my old computer, and plugged them into the new MSI motherboard on my new system with the intention of transferring all of my data to my new computer.
After the install, I accessed storage management on Windows 8.1. The computer recognized the drive, but it was in RAW format, and I was unable to access anything on the HDD. Other than this, I DID NOTHING. I Made NO changes what so ever. I simply removed the hard drives from my new computer and put them back in my old DELL.
NOW IT WONT BOOT.
IT says STATUS FAILED, not Bootable
I dont feel like I did ANYTHING to these hard drives. I didnt know they were in RAID, otherwise I wouldnt have removed them in the first place. PLEASE SOMEONE HELP!
IS there ANYTHING I can do to secure my data?
CLIFF NOTES:
- Build new computer
- Removed RAID setup drives out of old computer
- Installed drives in new computer
- discovered I count access them & removed them
- re-installed in old setup, now system wont boot
-The HDD were not FORMATTED, PARTITIONED, anything!
HOW DO I GET MY DATA BACK!!!???
A couple weeks back, I decided I wanted to update my 8 year old Dell Studio 540 with a new GPU, PSU, and CPU. I installed everything (updated the q8200 to q9650). After playing around with it, decided I wanted to build a new Windows 8 gaming PC. I ordered all the stuff off newegg and put the computer together. I used the NEW PSU & GPU (Nvidia GTX760) that I had purchased for my old DELL Studio 540.
Not knowing that my hard drives from my old computer are configured in RAID from the factory (2x 700MB 7200 WD HDD's) I removed them from my old computer, and plugged them into the new MSI motherboard on my new system with the intention of transferring all of my data to my new computer.
After the install, I accessed storage management on Windows 8.1. The computer recognized the drive, but it was in RAW format, and I was unable to access anything on the HDD. Other than this, I DID NOTHING. I Made NO changes what so ever. I simply removed the hard drives from my new computer and put them back in my old DELL.
NOW IT WONT BOOT.
IT says STATUS FAILED, not Bootable
I dont feel like I did ANYTHING to these hard drives. I didnt know they were in RAID, otherwise I wouldnt have removed them in the first place. PLEASE SOMEONE HELP!
IS there ANYTHING I can do to secure my data?
CLIFF NOTES:
- Build new computer
- Removed RAID setup drives out of old computer
- Installed drives in new computer
- discovered I count access them & removed them
- re-installed in old setup, now system wont boot
-The HDD were not FORMATTED, PARTITIONED, anything!
HOW DO I GET MY DATA BACK!!!???
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