Hard Drive crisis

[Lee]

>-----Original Message-----
>Please suggest solutions to this situation :
>
>I have a P4 2Ghz, 1GB ram system with 120GB Maxtor Hard
Drive installed. (
>all was fine till )
>1. one day computer crashed and reported bad sectors,
Maxtor sent a
>replacement.
>2. I used Win xp pro cd to format the new drive, (
primary slave, active )
>and installed win xp.
>3. Upon restarting, it booted to the old win xp, on old
hd, ( after changing
>the jumpers, New HD, master and Old HD slave )
>4. At this point I posted to this newsgroup and someone
suggested I can't
>have two active partitions, so I used partition magic 8.0
and used the
>option to convert the partition on old drive, ( just one
120gb) to logical.
>5. Partition magic restarted the computer and crashed
while doing that,
>about 39% was done.
>
>Now the problem :
>
>I restarted the computer and it tries to boot from the
old drive, ( Old
>drive = slave, new drive = master ) and hangs up right
from the os selection
>screen.
>
>If I remove my old drive, and keep the new only master it
boots perfectly.
>
>I need to get very important data from the old drive.
>1. Old won't boot by itself, ( hangs up )
>2, If I put old drive as slave then it tries to boot from
it and hangs
>again.
>
>
>
>Please help !!!!

Have you tried to adjust some settings in your system
bios? Like checking to see which hard drive is selected in
the boot sequence when they are both installed?
Also in the general tab in your system bios, I believe you
can select your slave and disable it. It will be ignored
while booting and once your running, enable it from
windows.

Hope it works.
>
>
>.
>

[shah]

Thanks to both of You, it worked!!!.

I changed the boot sequence and it worked, now the problem is part of my
data is unusable, or atleast outlook express of my new drive ( both Outlook
Express 6.0 with Win Xp Pro ) can't recognize it. I can use some of the
data, like Favorites, and some files.

Thank you again.

"Lee" > wrote in message
...
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Please suggest solutions to this situation :
> >
> >I have a P4 2Ghz, 1GB ram system with 120GB Maxtor Hard
> Drive installed. (
> >all was fine till )
> >1. one day computer crashed and reported bad sectors,
> Maxtor sent a
> >replacement.
> >2. I used Win xp pro cd to format the new drive, (
> primary slave, active )
> >and installed win xp.
> >3. Upon restarting, it booted to the old win xp, on old
> hd, ( after changing
> >the jumpers, New HD, master and Old HD slave )
> >4. At this point I posted to this newsgroup and someone
> suggested I can't
> >have two active partitions, so I used partition magic 8.0
> and used the
> >option to convert the partition on old drive, ( just one
> 120gb) to logical.
> >5. Partition magic restarted the computer and crashed
> while doing that,
> >about 39% was done.
> >
> >Now the problem :
> >
> >I restarted the computer and it tries to boot from the
> old drive, ( Old
> >drive = slave, new drive = master ) and hangs up right
> from the os selection
> >screen.
> >
> >If I remove my old drive, and keep the new only master it
> boots perfectly.
> >
> >I need to get very important data from the old drive.
> >1. Old won't boot by itself, ( hangs up )
> >2, If I put old drive as slave then it tries to boot from
> it and hangs
> >again.
> >
> >
> >
> >Please help !!!!
>
> Have you tried to adjust some settings in your system
> bios? Like checking to see which hard drive is selected in
> the boot sequence when they are both installed?
> Also in the general tab in your system bios, I believe you
> can select your slave and disable it. It will be ignored
> while booting and once your running, enable it from
> windows.
>
> Hope it works.
> >
> >
> >.
> >