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Answer» OK, I consider myself to be pretty savy about my computer but this one has me stumped. I got a new desktop pc and I wanted to remove the secondary drive from my old pc and install it as a secondary in my new computer because it has all of my files on it. I removed and installed the drive into my new computer making the orginal hard drive the master and the secondary as a slave. EVERYTHING BOOTED up just fine and the secondary drive shows up just fine in device manager. But, when I go into Explorer to access my data this is what I see: The secondary drive has been named to BOOTWORK (D) with the following files listed: I386 Folder ATRSBOOT File NTDETECT.COM MS DOS Application NTLDR File WINNT.SIF SIF File WINPE.ISO ISO File So then I decided to put my secondary drive back into my old computer and just try and burn everything to a CD and copy it that way. Well when I installed it back into my old computer it tells me the same thing as it did in my new computer! I'm so frusturated I'm about to pull my hair out. What am I doing wrong? Both systems are running Windows XP on the master drives. The secondary drive was for data storage only. Please tell me I haven't lost all of my data somehow!! Any advice would be a big help!! Welcome to the CH forums. Have you installed Altiris Bootworks on either machine? Do you have an operating system, like Windows, on that second drive?Quote from: Dusty on September 04, 2008, 10:41:11 PM Welcome to the CH forums. Nope I haven't but then again this is not a brand new machine, just new to me. As a matter of fact I don't think I have even heard of Altris Bootworks. Wendy Quote from: Aegis on September 05, 2008, 01:38:53 AM Do you have an operating system, like Windows, on that second drive? I'm almost positive I don't because the drive was SPECIFICALLY used for storage only. I'm trying to remember the last time I looked at it when it was working fine and I don't RECALL seeing any type of Windows files listed. Wendy i think the data inside it has been corrupted. you just have to reformat the hardisk Quote from: esther on September 05, 2008, 06:27:30 AM i think the data inside it has been corrupted. you just have to reformat the hardisk Can you walk me through how to do that? Will I lose all the data on the drive by reformatting it? Wendy I would advise against formatting. You will loose all the data you are trying to recover. What happens if you right click the drive and go to Properties? Anything out of place?Quote from: Carbon Dudeoxide on September 05, 2008, 08:49:54 AM I would advise against formatting. You will loose all the data you are trying to recover. Not sure about out of place but everything I've looked at says the drive is functioning properly.What exactly does it say under properties ? ?Try to rename the drive in Disk manager. Control panel Administrative tools Computer management Disk management. Here you can manage the drive pretty much as you like. I will start by re naming the disk to f drive. I have seen this when a disk has been formatted with hidden partitions. When you access the disk do you double click it? If so try right click and explore. |
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