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Thread ID: 93815 2008-10-01 21:02:00 Recovering files from HDD jcr1 (893) Press F1
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709110 2008-10-01 21:02:00 I have a WD Caviar Drive (IDE 200gb), which I've removed from a dead media player (Media Gate SD350, which has gone back to place I purchased it from - another story:( ).
The drive has files on it, which I would like to retrieve. If I install it in my win xp pro machine as a slave drive, would I be able to retrieve Them?
It's not the end of the world if I don't, as I have them elsewhere; but it would be a pain if I had to go back to the tapes of our last holiday and re-do them on the PC.
jcr1 (893)
709111 2008-10-01 22:59:00 Of course you can - slaved or attached as an external drive. pctek (84)
709112 2008-10-02 01:44:00 Of course you can - slaved or attached as an external drive.
Thanks, pctek, I'll give it a flick:)
jcr1 (893)
709113 2008-10-02 03:20:00 Installed it as "slave". Works fine:thumbs:
Also gave me the chance to clean out the interior of the computer with some compressed air.
jcr1 (893)
709114 2008-10-02 06:58:00 You would have only had issues retrieving the files if the host OS was Windows, and the Media Centre PC was Linux based.
But there are ways around that too (Linux Live CD)
Myth (110)
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