need help getting data off old drive!!!

scooter9051 · 07-05-2009, 09:38 PM

How is everyone doing? Here it goes, my mom's computer crashed or should I say the CPU burnt up! I have ordered and built her A new tower and need to get some pictures off of the old drive! I have installed the drive (IDE) and the computer does not see it! The old drive does still have the orig OS on it. Could that be the problem? How can I get into this drive and grab the pic's for her? I have gone into disk mangment and I see it but can not assign it A drive letter, when I right click on it all it gives me is A help option.

smajer · 07-06-2009, 03:56 PM

Hello,

Really tough to tell from this point, however you can try a live boot cd of sort that has a os running on it. From there you can plug in a flash drive or even burn a cd (If the live cd has burning software on it) and grab the data. A live cd should pick up the attached drive.
You can find some free live linux distro's to try at:
http://www.thefreecountry.com/operat...ibutions.shtml
Good luck

JonH · 07-06-2009, 05:22 PM

I am by no means a expert here but, how is the drive jumpered? The computer might not 'see' it if it's not jumpered correctly.

Just a thought.

07-05-2009, 09:38 PM	#1 (permalink)
scooter9051 New Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1	need help getting data off old drive!!! How is everyone doing? Here it goes, my mom's computer crashed or should I say the CPU burnt up! I have ordered and built her A new tower and need to get some pictures off of the old drive! I have installed the drive (IDE) and the computer does not see it! The old drive does still have the orig OS on it. Could that be the problem? How can I get into this drive and grab the pic's for her? I have gone into disk mangment and I see it but can not assign it A drive letter, when I right click on it all it gives me is A help option.

07-06-2009, 03:56 PM	#2 (permalink)
smajer Silver Member Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 193	Hello, Really tough to tell from this point, however you can try a live boot cd of sort that has a os running on it. From there you can plug in a flash drive or even burn a cd (If the live cd has burning software on it) and grab the data. A live cd should pick up the attached drive. You can find some free live linux distro's to try at: http://www.thefreecountry.com/operat...ibutions.shtml Good luck __________________ Sergiusz Majer Technical Support Representative Hosting.com

07-06-2009, 05:22 PM	#3 (permalink)
JonH New Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 24	I am by no means a expert here but, how is the drive jumpered? The computer might not 'see' it if it's not jumpered correctly. Just a thought. __________________ Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Gigabyte GA-EX38-DS4 GeForce 8800GT 512mb 256-bit 600MHz Corsair XMS2 8gb DDR2 (4X2gb) Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500gb 7200rpm Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB 7200 RPM Vista Ultimate 64bit LITE-ON Black 16X DVD-ROM LITE-ON Black 20X DVD+R Burner with LightScribe Samsung 2253BW

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