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My father and I were installing a new 160GB Western Digital hard drive to my
computer. We made sure to follow every precaution and instruction listed in
the manual for a new hard drive. We had it installed in the second bay.
And, you guessed it, I didn't back up. It was just too much to back up; 20
gigs of music that I've spent about 5 years collecting, about 6 gigs of
photoshop and bitmap files I've created over the last few years, all of my
writing, etc etc...
We turned on the computer and it said something like "boot disk failure" (I
feel stupid for not knowing the exact message but I'm sure you understand
which message I mean). We used the software that came with the new drive
(Data Lifeguard) and it recognized both drives, but wanted to reformat the
our primary drive, the Maxtor 60GB. It doesn't seem to recognize that
there's any information on it, but the information the software finds about
it says that there is bootable data, and it does show the 2 partitions.
However, when we tried to transfer data from one partition to another, it
just acted like the drive was blank.
I've checked around this newsgroup for other hard drive problems involving
data loss, and we found a solution that my dad and I had already thought
about; Installing XP on the new drive, and having the Maxtor be a secondary
drive, and try to copy the important files (text, media, etc) to the new
drive and then reformat the Maxtor.
We're thinking that we might have wiped the drive with a static electricity
problem. The literature with the hard drive said to make sure the computer
is off when installing a new hard drive, but another source said that the
computer MUST be turned on to prevent damage from static electricity. We
turned the computer off when putting in the new hard drive, and we've also
switched the drives a couple times to try different solutions.
Sorry for such a long post, but does anybody have any solutions to recovery,
or speculations as to what wrecked the hard drive? And will we probably be
able to copy the files to the new drive if it's used as a slave drive?
I've lost the Windows XP disc, so I guess getting a new one comes first. I
believe Microsoft will give us a new disc since I'm registered but I'm not
completely sure.
Thank you all for your time.
My father and I were installing a new 160GB Western Digital hard drive to my
computer. We made sure to follow every precaution and instruction listed in
the manual for a new hard drive. We had it installed in the second bay.
And, you guessed it, I didn't back up. It was just too much to back up; 20
gigs of music that I've spent about 5 years collecting, about 6 gigs of
photoshop and bitmap files I've created over the last few years, all of my
writing, etc etc...
We turned on the computer and it said something like "boot disk failure" (I
feel stupid for not knowing the exact message but I'm sure you understand
which message I mean). We used the software that came with the new drive
(Data Lifeguard) and it recognized both drives, but wanted to reformat the
our primary drive, the Maxtor 60GB. It doesn't seem to recognize that
there's any information on it, but the information the software finds about
it says that there is bootable data, and it does show the 2 partitions.
However, when we tried to transfer data from one partition to another, it
just acted like the drive was blank.
I've checked around this newsgroup for other hard drive problems involving
data loss, and we found a solution that my dad and I had already thought
about; Installing XP on the new drive, and having the Maxtor be a secondary
drive, and try to copy the important files (text, media, etc) to the new
drive and then reformat the Maxtor.
We're thinking that we might have wiped the drive with a static electricity
problem. The literature with the hard drive said to make sure the computer
is off when installing a new hard drive, but another source said that the
computer MUST be turned on to prevent damage from static electricity. We
turned the computer off when putting in the new hard drive, and we've also
switched the drives a couple times to try different solutions.
Sorry for such a long post, but does anybody have any solutions to recovery,
or speculations as to what wrecked the hard drive? And will we probably be
able to copy the files to the new drive if it's used as a slave drive?
I've lost the Windows XP disc, so I guess getting a new one comes first. I
believe Microsoft will give us a new disc since I'm registered but I'm not
completely sure.
Thank you all for your time.