Hard Disk Boot problem

[dom462]

I have an IDE hard disk from my old system and I am hoping to recover some data from it. I have attached it to my new system as a slave drive to my DVD drive. My primary hard disk is SATA. When I boot up I get the blue screen with the error Page File in Non-Paged area and the system then resets itself. I believe the old hard disk may have other problems with the file system, but all I want to do is get into windows and try and use a data recovery software on it. Please can somebody help?

 

[SomeJoe7777]

Sounds like your system is attempting to boot from the old drive. Go into your BIOS and check to make sure the SATA drive is set as the boot drive.

 

[dallasjoh]

Get yourself one of these adapters. They work great for recovering data from crashed HDD.

http://www.directron.com/cbisatau2.html

 

[dom462]

I've been into BIOS and checked, it is definately booting up from the SATA drive.