Installed Slave Drive, computer starts deleting files

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lazyturbo

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I recently installed my old hard drive as a slave drive on my new computer. The old one has Win2000 and my new computer uses XP.

When I boot it up, before XP loads, it starts deleting files and fixing sectors. A bunch of lines keep executing saying "Deleting..." I'm assuming its doing this on my slave drive. I got scared, but couldn't cancel the process, and the power button didn't work either. So I pulled the Power Cord. Should I let it continue? or is it wiping my slave drive clean?

When I put the old hard drive back on my old computer. Win2000 no longer boots up. What has happened?

Thanks....hope someone can help me.
 
Are you sure you didn't have a virus or something? I've used many old drives as slaves and never run into that problem...

What's the screen look like? Is it some sort of Windows screen, or just DOS with characters, no graphics what-so-ever?
 
Its the same type of screen as when scandisk runs, its in DOS, with the blue XP background. But instead of scandisk, its deleting a bunch of files.

I'm pretty sure its not a virus, because both computers were working fine before.
 
It might be doing a scandisk kinda thing, it does that to my portable 40gb... but it doesnt say deleting. that doesnt make sense. I would try it in a friends comp and see what happens, maybe save the files you want, and then let your comp delete the ones you dont care about when you put it back in.
 
Yea, I want to save the files that I want, but the problem is that it no longer works properly on both computers.

Is there any other way to access the data on the drive so that I can back the files that i need?
 
Their not really valuable, just some pictures. But I wouldn't want to lose them if there's a way to get them back.
 
Boot up with that slave drive as master and backup all the files to a usb device or CD, then just let it delete all the files.
 
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