On Thursday 03 June 2004 22:29, Doug McGarrett wrote:
On Thursday 03 June 2004 16:06, Stephen W wrote:
People, I'm learning ... Thanks for our help. Now I have been able to access 3 of the drives seen by my bios (Master Primary, Master Slave and Secondary Slave... the Secondary Master is still missing to linux).
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IF the old Windows disk was NOT formatted in NTFS, and you have a dos boot floppy with fdisk on it, then boot off the floppy and then issue the command fdisk -mbr This should reinitialise the master boot record if the disk is really functional. It will destroy any multi-boot stuff of course. But you'll be able to read the drive.
There are one or two dos programs that will read anything readable on a drive, as long as it is turning and the heads will move, but I don't know offhand what they are. I have actually seen one of them work!
I can access files on the old linux disk (SuSE) and one of my old Windows disks. I am still not able to access the old primary Windows disk (which in the old system was C) and the one I am not able to dual boot from... this is what started all of this... when I tried to boot the old system one day I got this error message:
GRUB hard disk failure...
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I'm not sure, but before you do that, read this http://www.pro-linux.de/news/2004/6872.html page if you can, or at least http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-May/msg00908.html It just /might/ apply to you. BTW, did you check the jumper(s) and the cables of the HD? Jumper(s) in right position, and cable works with other HD's? Cheers, Leen