Need to add used SATA to IDE system to recover data

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Hi,

Hope I'm in the right place.

I have an Aopen i855GMEm-LFS motherboard. I orginally managed to
install Media Center 2005 onto 200g SATA using an old floppy and the
F6 option.

However when installing a game it became impossible to boot from the
drive and I couldn't get a floppy to work for reinstallation and
fearing I would have the problem in the future decided to install os
on old 30g ide drive - no problem. SATA still connected.

In Computer Management, Storage, Disk Management, the drive is there
but it is unallocated.

I still feel that the data should be accessible. I have two Ghost
images (one which didn't work!!! on DVD and got bored waiting to try
the second) so could always get the data from that but would rather
just get my music etc etc from the SATA disk.

I'm unsure how to proceed. I think the os feels that there is no
partition info on the drive - possible since it couldn't boot from it,
but will the right click create partition option remove my data?

Any help appreciated.

Gordon Moore

 

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gordonfmoore@yahoo.co.uk (Gordon Moore) wrote in message news:<b5da467d.0503161333.5178c75a@posting.google.com>...
> Hi,
>
> Hope I'm in the right place.
Problem sorted: Used TestDisk to recover backup partition info and
MBR. Great app, but quirky interface.

Gordon


>
> I have an Aopen i855GMEm-LFS motherboard. I orginally managed to
> install Media Center 2005 onto 200g SATA using an old floppy and the
> F6 option.
>
> However when installing a game it became impossible to boot from the
> drive and I couldn't get a floppy to work for reinstallation and
> fearing I would have the problem in the future decided to install os
> on old 30g ide drive - no problem. SATA still connected.
>
> In Computer Management, Storage, Disk Management, the drive is there
> but it is unallocated.
>
> I still feel that the data should be accessible. I have two Ghost
> images (one which didn't work!!! on DVD and got bored waiting to try
> the second) so could always get the data from that but would rather
> just get my music etc etc from the SATA disk.
>
> I'm unsure how to proceed. I think the os feels that there is no
> partition info on the drive - possible since it couldn't boot from it,
> but will the right click create partition option remove my data?
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Gordon Moore