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zeppeki

Jul 30 2008, 08:27 AM

I just completed upgrading my HD because my old one died on me. I am now trying to recover the documents from my old drive by adding it as a second Hard Drive. I enabled it in the BIOS and now am able to see my old drive in Windows. When I go to try and browse its contents in Explorer, it tells me I need to format the drive.
Is there a way that I can still go in and copy my documents from this old drive?

Thanks,
Todd

Surfer

Jul 30 2008, 08:44 AM

depends on how far gone the hd is. i'd d/l knopixx, burn to cd and boot with it. maybe you'll be able to use the drive from there.

http://www.knoppix.net/

zeppeki

Jul 30 2008, 09:10 AM

QUOTE(Surfer @ Jul 30 2008, 08:44 AM)

depends on how far gone the hd is. i'd d/l knopixx, burn to cd and boot with it. maybe you'll be able to use the drive from there.

http://www.knoppix.net/

Thank you sir! I will give it a shot tonight.

ranchhand

Jul 30 2008, 10:17 AM

If you have any prolems with Knoppix (Linux based) I have a tutorial that I created on using it; post back and I will post it.

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