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LeftCoast · 11-01-2002, 09:44 PM

Hi all,

Yeah, I could probably get it to boot if I spent many, many more man-hours than the data is actually worth to me, but that's another thread.

I'd like to just cut my losses, and slave the unbootable drive to my other former back-up drive, save the files I want, put the drive into another box and format that little sob (and it's Highmem prob) into oblivion. The question: is there a way to do this without messing up all the drive letter pathways on installed hardware/software in the good drive? I seem to remember doing this and it being a total clusterf@%$ after I removed the second HDD, and had to start fresh on that drive shortly thereafter.

Is there another solution I'm totally overlooking, like a utility that will get me booted on the bad HDD, independent of slaving it to a working bootable drive?

As always, thanks in advance for all the responses, and hopefully sometime in the not-too-distant future I'll be answering more questions in these forums than I ask!

-LC

11-01-2002, 09:44 PM	#1 (permalink)
LeftCoast Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Tampa Posts: 560	See today's most popular deals at » Retrieving data from an unbootable drive. Hi all, Yeah, I could probably get it to boot if I spent many, many more man-hours than the data is actually worth to me, but that's another thread. I'd like to just cut my losses, and slave the unbootable drive to my other former back-up drive, save the files I want, put the drive into another box and format that little sob (and it's Highmem prob) into oblivion. The question: is there a way to do this without messing up all the drive letter pathways on installed hardware/software in the good drive? I seem to remember doing this and it being a total clusterf@%$ after I removed the second HDD, and had to start fresh on that drive shortly thereafter. Is there another solution I'm totally overlooking, like a utility that will get me booted on the bad HDD, independent of slaving it to a working bootable drive? As always, thanks in advance for all the responses, and hopefully sometime in the not-too-distant future I'll be answering more questions in these forums than I ask! -LC Last edited by LeftCoast; 11-01-2002 at 09:47 PM.