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Thread ID: 36287	2003-08-05 01:41:00	New Computer, old hard drive gives error when trying to read	Kibito (623)	Press F1

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165499	2003-08-05 01:41:00	Just yesterday I got a new computer. Athlon Xp 2600, 784mb 333mhz ram and gigabyte Triton K7 400 board. Got a 60gb samsung 7200rpm as well. I want to copy my old files across right from my old 40gb samsung 5400rpm drive but when I plug it in etc and installed Win2k on the new one, I go to my computer and it shows the old drive as like um E: and when I try to open it it says drive not formatted, would you like to format. What should I do? I really need the data off the hard drive does this error mean the hard drive won't work? please help!	Kibito (623)
165500	2003-08-05 01:55:00	Have you gotten rid of the old computer - does it still work in that one? If it does you could use a network connection between the two. N	nicnz (2273)
165501	2003-08-05 02:01:00	Your old hard drive is fine if it's been picked up, problem is the hard drives geometry, it's probably out of line, which is why Windows wants to format it to straighten it up. You have to get into your BIOS and change the settings of your old Hard Drive to one of these options LBA, Large or Normal. If it's on Auto then no doubt it'll be using LBA which isn't the right one, so you should try Large and if you can't access the drive using Large, try Normal and if that doesn't work, then you should go with the other suggestion suggested.	Kame (312)
165502	2003-08-05 05:06:00	Kibito, I'm wondering, how old was your old computer? When the 40gb was installed in the old machine did you have to install some kind of drive overlay to enable your machine to read the larger drive? If so, then this will still need to be loaded for you to access that drive. Once you've got all the stuff off the old drive you can format and remove the overlay, but until you've got the data off it you'll need to somehow load the overlay program before you boot. The easiest way to do that is to put the old drive back into the old machine and transfer all your data over via a network. Mike.	Mike (15)
165503	2003-08-05 06:49:00	Ok Sup guys thanks all for the reply, specially person 2; I didn't think about that but I'll try that as soon as I get home. Ok my old computer was. Gigabyte G-8Tx or something along those lines it was a p4 board and My cpu was Pentium 4 1.4 and no i didn't have to install a driv eoverly thingy ma bob um yup yea so I had 384 ram (128x3) RD ram the one with the metal casing. And um yea I put my old hard drive in a new case new motherboard a gigabyte triton 400 something something and um Athlon Xp 2600, (784 333mhz ram 512 + 256) and um connect old hard drive. Doesn't work. Windows picks it up right, but then says needa format it. So yea do you guys think if I try that lba thingy in bios that it'll work???? Coz yea that hard drive has like my last 3 years life on computer on it so I'll do anything to get the data off it. So the lba thing I should try???	Kibito (623)
165504	2003-08-05 06:51:00	Oh yes almost forgot. Real weird right. The old hard drive, samsung 40gb 5400 the one with data on it. I put it in my old comp, plug it in turn comp on. Nothing. PSu don't turn on nothing does. Disconnect hard drive. Turns on 0_o????? Does this mean the hard drives screwed? The other dude said that windows picks it up so that it's fine so yea I'll try that bios thing right???	Kibito (623)
165505	2003-08-05 08:23:00	Ok tried all modes. Tried Large, LBA and bios had no um Normal, only CHS which I think was the equivalent. Anyway, tried all of them. But still everytime I get into windows. My computer. I click on the drive. And on the left where it shows stats. Blank. Click. "drive not formatted" I remember my old board was a Ga-8TX and my new mboard is a GA-7VA I'm kinda getting desparate here coz I'm running out of options on what to do. Do you guys think that drive overlay thing might work? If so how do I do that?	Kibito (623)
165506	2003-08-05 11:56:00	Time to spend some money and get a professional to recover the data if the contents are important and no backups are available. Men are four: He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he is a fool--shun him; He who knows not and knows he knows not, he is simple--teach him; He who knows and knows not he knows, he is asleep--wake him; He who knows and knows he knows, he is wise--follow him! - Lady Burton (wife of Sir Richard Francis Burton), given as an Arabian proverb	Merlin (503)
165507	2003-08-05 11:58:00	So it can be recovered? Can you please tell me a real good place that can do stuff like this when all odds are against it?	Kibito (623)
165508	2003-08-05 12:04:00	Search here - http://www . searchnz . co . nz/ - using "data recovery auckland" I don't live in Dorkland . Men are four: He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he is a fool--shun him; He who knows not and knows he knows not, he is simple--teach him; He who knows and knows not he knows, he is asleep--wake him; He who knows and knows he knows, he is wise--follow him! - Lady Burton (wife of Sir Richard Francis Burton), given as an Arabian proverb	Merlin (503)
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