Sorry your browser is not supported!

You are using an outdated browser that does not support modern web technologies, in order to use this site please update to a new browser.

Browsers supported include Chrome, FireFox, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer 10+ or Microsoft Edge.

Geek Culture / Hard Drive help?

Author
Message
General Sephiro
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 27th Sep 2004
Location:
Posted: 16th May 2006 04:40 Edited at: 16th May 2006 04:41
Link
ok listen up, and listen closely.

A while ago (2 days ago) my hard drive made a click sound, it has been doing that and shutting down for the past 6 months or so, but recently the hard drive clicked.. and a dreaded blue screen came up. Now the computer will not even go past loading the XP "loading" screen. I tried safe mode etc.. it just turns up another blue screen... (and restarts too quickly to even read the blue screen)

got annoyed with it, went out and baught a new hard drive, just put it in and installed everything again, apart from DBC have to still find that cd

Anyway to my question is there any way i can retrieve the data on hard drive 1? I've tried hooking hard drive 2 and hard drive 1 up at the same time.., but sadly no luck it doesn't even seem to realise it has been connected any help?

As i've been working hard in some projects (not keeping backups >.< ) although i do believe i gave the source code to some of my projects =P so hopefully i can get some of my work back.


http://www.hybridwolves.co.uk
Back to top
Profile PM
Drew G
User Banned
Posted: 16th May 2006 04:56
Link
Hmm... Quite a problem you have...
Wait, Dog Fighters II was created in DBC? Goodness...

Anyway, I guess you hang on to the defective one and see if anyone can suck data out of it. Sorry to hear that though..
Back to top
Profile
CattleRustler
Retired Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 8th Aug 2003
Location: case modding at overclock.net
Posted: 16th May 2006 21:44 Edited at: 16th May 2006 21:45
Link
make sure the new hd is the primary master, and set the old one to its primary slave (all via the jumper settings). Reconnect everything up and boot to windows, you should be able to see the old drive and get files off of it, unless its dead dead.

Back to top
Profile PM
General Sephiro
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 27th Sep 2004
Location:
Posted: 17th May 2006 15:16 Edited at: 17th May 2006 15:24
Link
Strong Bad -> all my games were created in DBC.


CattleRustler -> hmm Hard drive 2 is set as the primary drive.. I know this cause it works when booting up =P.

Hooked up the other hard drive with the secondary IDE cable... but nothing happens. Doesn't even seem to detect it . I shall not give up hope though!

-{Edit}- Tried hooking it up in various ways.., no luck. At the beginning it doesn't even detect a secondary hard drive.


http://www.hybridwolves.co.uk
Back to top
Profile PM
CattleRustler
Retired Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 8th Aug 2003
Location: case modding at overclock.net
Posted: 17th May 2006 15:33 Edited at: 17th May 2006 15:34
Link
[Motherboard Primary IDE]--------------[SlaveHDD]---[MasterHDD]

did you set it up like that on the cable and set the jumpers accordingly? did you give it power? are you aligning pin 1 everywhere correctly?

Use just the primary IDE channel and set up both drives on it, the ide ribbon cable should have a 40pin connector on the ends and one offset from the middle. connect the drives as per the diagram above.
set the jumpers master and slave (usually MA and SL, dont use CS(Cable Select)) - set the bios to AUTO detect both the primary master and primary slave.

anything?

Back to top
Profile PM
Pincho Paxton
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 8th Dec 2002
Location:
Posted: 17th May 2006 16:28
Link
Time for me to back everything up I think.

Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
John Y
Synergy Editor Developer
22
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 4th Sep 2002
Location: UK
Posted: 17th May 2006 16:45
Link
Try this

1). Take your new hard drive out and put the old one back in as it was when it broke
2). Insert your XP cd and let it boot off that
3). Choose recovery console
4). It should detect your disk (that is if it is detected by the bios)
5). Type 'Chkdsk C:'

This should clean up your harddisk enough to read it, as long as it is not physically broke


Http://synergyide.thegamecreators.com
Http://omegabasic.thegamecreators.com
Back to top
Profile PM Website
Back to top

Login to post a reply

Server time is: 2024-11-17 02:35:16
Your offset time is: 2024-11-17 02:35:16