HI,

Can anybody help me with this problem.

I had a PII with 1.8GB HD and Window 2000. I bought a PIII and install my old drive in it as salve. Then I install Window XP to the master HD of my new computer. But after the installation my old drive (slave) is not working ( I cannot read the data). Does anybody help me, as I had very important data in my old HD.

If this Drive has been damaged, is it possible to recover data and how. Help me please.

Nusrat

Did it work on the old computer?

Does it show up in BIOS, in My Computer, and in Device Manager?

Is the IDE cable connected to it so that the red(or blue or gray) stripe along the one edge of the cable is next to the power cable on the back of the drive?

Did you try a different power lead?

Did you try CS(cable select) instead of Slave?

Did you try connecting it to the IDE 2 channel as either Master, Slave, or CS?

Agree that it must first show up in the BIOS setup before you can either use it or recover data from it using recovery software and that the most likely problem is that the cables, connections or jumpers are incorrect.

If you can still access the drive on the older pc and get into Win2000 I would then backup your data onto removable media before doing anything else. That should be a priority with valuable data in any case. Another possiblility would be to network the two PCs and transfer the data that way.

Connect your old hard disk into IDE2 by using old 66 pins cable (these cables goes with CD drives or just use a cable from your old PC) and remember that your old hard must be a single drive on your cable: you shouldn't connect no other devices on that cable. Your new hard disk with your new OS must be on the first IDE slot (IDE1) and in BIOS setup choose that your PC will boot from your new HDD (a setting is HDD0).