Need help getting files off of old win xp drive
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Posted 05 October 2011 - 02:10 PM
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#32
Posted 06 October 2011 - 09:16 AM
thanks for your patience leader2
now this guide was written with you in mind,
i assumed both your hard drives only had 1 partition and were in the old pc connected as i suggested in an earlier post with the master (sda1 drive with lost files) on the end cable connection and the slave(sdb1 empty 6gb drive where the files will be saved) on the middle connection.
sda1 should show up as the largest drive and sdb1 should show up as the 6gb drive when your in puppy, if they don't show up like the guide please post any discrepancies in your next reply before going any farther, last thing we want is for you to use/write to the wrong drive/partition.
i only searched for mp3 and wav music files because they should fit onto your 6gb drive from what you've said, if you do find your lost music files then we're going to need to connect the search drive to your new pc and run puppy on there with some changes to the search/save, drive/partitions because i doubt the 6gb drive will be big enough to save your video files to.
just had a thought while writing this.. your 6gb drive is that an actual physical hard drive or was it just a hard drive that showed up in your windows os when it was working?
anyway i hope this helps..
Thanks so much for the tutorial terry. But I was wondering before I begin, will it work if I have the 6gb as the master and the old 120 gb (which has the files I need) as the slave? As I said in my original post this was my setup once I had the problem with the drive. Please let me know so that I can know what to do before I begin. Thanks so much.
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Posted 06 October 2011 - 10:01 AM
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Posted 06 October 2011 - 11:12 AM
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Posted 06 October 2011 - 11:46 AM
Edited by terry1966, 06 October 2011 - 11:47 AM.
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Posted 06 October 2011 - 11:54 AM
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#38
Posted 06 October 2011 - 06:35 PM
you could even run it on your new pc with the old hard drive connected in your external enclosure.
windows has it's version of photorec too so you don't even need to use puppy really.
the only thing you need to know is which drive shows up as what and where,
then you can make the correct choices on where to search for and where to save those lost files.
here's a temporary link (i think everyone can see that part of the site anyway) to the guide as it stands now, bit more polished :- http://forums.whatth...howtopic=120626
photorecs official guide :- http://www.cgsecurit...ec_Step_By_Step
Edited by terry1966, 06 October 2011 - 06:48 PM.
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Posted 09 October 2011 - 01:44 PM
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Posted 09 October 2011 - 03:35 PM
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#41
Posted 09 October 2011 - 03:43 PM
check the cd itself on your new pc and see if it boots ok, if so then it should boot ok on your old pc.
you could always burn another disc tho and try that.
when the pc is booting do you see an option that says something like F12 for boot options? if so tap it when booting and you should then get the choice of what to boot from, choose the cd drive and see if it boots now(this will rule out a wrong choice in bios)
if the cd is good and everything is connected correctly with the cd drive as first boot option then i'm out of ideas where the problem may be, whatever it is tho you need to find and fix it otherwise you won't be able to re-install your windows os later if needed either.
i think to fix that boot error message you need to follow my earlier advice about setting the jumpers on your hard drives to cable select and connect the bigger hard drive as master and 6bg drive as slave.
here's a couple of links about jumper settings:- http://seagate.custk...f...&NewLang=en
http://freepctech.co...e_devices.shtml
Edited by terry1966, 09 October 2011 - 04:04 PM.
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Posted 09 October 2011 - 05:09 PM
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Posted 09 October 2011 - 05:32 PM
Edited by terry1966, 09 October 2011 - 05:34 PM.
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Posted 09 October 2011 - 05:32 PM
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Posted 09 October 2011 - 05:46 PM
Edited by terry1966, 09 October 2011 - 05:54 PM.
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