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Forum: Geek Forum Topic: HELP! started by: Neophyre Posted by Neophyre on Jan. 08 2002,00:20
I finally did the upgrade, everything works fine, EXCEPT for my 2nd hard drive, which had EVERYTHING on it!how do i retrieve the data from this drive? the bios sees it, but has not assigned it a drive letter, and winME doesn't see it at all. it's a 10gig seagate. when i first installed it, i had to use one of the seagate utilities to let the p1 board see my 10gig drive. I need this data back! Posted by CatKnight on Jan. 08 2002,06:07
the first thing i can think of is that your slave/master jumpers aren't set right for your configuration. when i got my new dvd drive my computer wouldn't boot and my bios was giving me junk characters until i figured out that was the problem.
Posted by Neophyre on Jan. 08 2002,06:49
i've checked the jumpers, they're correct.the 10 gig (the HD with the data i want to retrieve) is set as slave, and my smaller drive has the OS on it and is set as Master. Posted by damien_s_lucifer on Jan. 08 2002,07:26
I'd guess that's the source of your problem. There should be a way to get your data back, but I need some info. First, are you booting from the same HD you used to, or do you have a new one? Posted by incubus on Jan. 08 2002,21:10
I distinctly remember installing something very similar...however, I don't remember it being incompatible when I changed machines... I remember partitionmagic 5 picked it up and said something like "We don't recommend resizing partitions if you have this on your drive" ... damn, what was it called... *goes to look* Nah, can't find it. Bet it has something to do with that, dammit! Posted by Neophyre on Jan. 09 2002,01:27
booting from the same hard drive, but reformatted and installed winME.now the problem i think is that all the boot info that seagate utilities installed was on the OS drive, and when i reformatted, it stuffed it all up. Posted by Neophyre on Jan. 09 2002,01:49
was talking to incubus, and we came about the harddrive having something to do with Dynamic Drive Overlay, which came up whenever i tried running the seagate utility program last night.
Posted by damien_s_lucifer on Jan. 09 2002,03:54
Your 10Gb drive is formatted strangely because of the DDO. You'll need to install the Seagate software on your boot drive to recognize it. If you have a small unused HD you can use / borrow, I'd install the Seagate software & WinWhatever on it. Don't even worry about the drivers; you won't use this install once you're done with it.Hook up the boot drive you're using now as a secondary, and your 10GB as a third. Start up from your temporary boot drive. Copy everything from your 10GB into a folder onto your new hd. Pull the temp. boot drive out and hook your drives up the way you want them. Boot from your new HD, make sure your data copied over OK, fdisk & format the 10GB, and copy everything back. Presto! No more drive overlay, and no more weird formatting! |