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| Thread ID: 88526 | 2008-03-30 22:15:00 | How to retrieve data from an old hard drive? | Greg (193) | Press F1 |
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| 654441 | 2008-04-12 15:16:00 | Well I tried the thing again with my drive after freezing - I can confirm it now runs, so that was a partial success. However the BIOS and Windows still fail to detect it. Can anyone either confirm or deny that it isn't recognised because it's Win98 with Fat32? |
Greg (193) | ||
| 654442 | 2008-04-12 15:24:00 | Can anyone either confirm or deny that it isn't recognised because it's Win98 with Fat32?] hell NO.......fat32 is PERFECTLY recognisable by NTFS......and even if you had a fat32 system and tried to slave a ntfs drive to it.........while you couldn't read it the bios would still see the drive....... the bios is totally 'filesystem' independant.........it will 'see' a drive regardless of whether it's got any file system or not..........so NO it's totally irrelevant that your'e running ntfs as that would definitely 'read' a fat32 sysetm anyway but the drive not showing in bios simply means the controller board or other physical parts in teh drive are STUFFED.......... |
drcspy (146) | ||
| 654443 | 2008-04-12 17:41:00 | the drive not showing in bios simply means the controller board or other physical parts in teh drive are STUFFED.......... Dammit. Thanks anyway. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 654444 | 2008-04-13 23:02:00 | ]the drive not showing in bios simply means the controller board or other physical parts in teh drive are STUFFED.......... If you can get the exact same hard drive - make/model/etc - you can try swapping the controller board over and see if that works long enough to copy the data off. I did this with an old Maxtor that crapped out. Got a replacement off ebay for a lot of $$, but it worked. |
autechre (266) | ||
| 654445 | 2008-04-13 23:20:00 | That's if the board is faulty and not the system area... but if you want what's on there, it might be worth a try (assuming you can get a new board) I have 2 quantum bigfoots myself, 2GB each, but they are standard 5.25" size, not 8 as you say yours is.. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 654446 | 2008-04-15 21:07:00 | They'll be the same size. Care to sell me a board from one of yours? (assuming you're no longer using it) | Greg (193) | ||
| 654447 | 2008-04-15 23:11:00 | I still am using the drives, but you can borrow the board if you like. What's the model number of yours, so I can check they're the same... I also notice you're in auckland? maybe you're not too far from me |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 654448 | 2008-04-16 01:31:00 | I'm in Pakuranga. Thanks tons for the offer, but I won't put you to that trouble. As first mentioned it ain't critical data that I need to capture - I'll just hang on to the drive until something falls into my hands later on. Cheers and thanks again. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 654449 | 2008-05-16 21:53:00 | Well... I bought myself a replacement 2nd hand controller board and put it in this morning. It doesn't look identical to my existing one, but it's similar, and it fits. I put it in and fired up the machine. The drive turned and whirred and did its thing, but still isn't recognised in either BIOS or Windows. Any more suggestions, please? I'm guessing I need to match the exact board from the old drive with an exact match from a replacement drive? ps - at this moment the drive is spinning crazily for some unknown reason! |
Greg (193) | ||
| 654450 | 2008-05-16 23:20:00 | Have you tried booting from it? IIRC Windows 9X will run on hardware that is different from the one it was originally installed on (unlike Win NT, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista). Just plug it into any PC as the primary master. And have you tried putting the drive on Cable select? Had a machine that wasn't picking up the HD, put it on CS and it was working perfectly (still does!) EDIT: I assume the connection is IDE? |
jwil1 (65) | ||
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