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clevelandst124 · 10-02-2007, 06:38 AM

Disk management says the new drive does not exist. Maybe something is wrong with the sata cable I purchased to connect my hd to my computer. Because, I just have the drive connected through my standard connection, bios seems to understand what it is and I get the .00000024 Stop. Which, like I alluded to, seems to indicate that my NTSF.sys file on the old harddrive has been corrupted. So I think my two options are, figure out how to repair windows on the old system or figure out how to get my computer to see both at this point.

On another topic, would it be worthwhile to clone my old harddrive to my new one and then do a restore, so my 500 gig thinks it is my original dell? There does not appear to be an actual "recovery disk" other than the disk partition mentioned above.

10-02-2007, 06:38 AM	#12
clevelandst124 Member (4 bit) Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 9	Disk management says the new drive does not exist. Maybe something is wrong with the sata cable I purchased to connect my hd to my computer. Because, I just have the drive connected through my standard connection, bios seems to understand what it is and I get the .00000024 Stop. Which, like I alluded to, seems to indicate that my NTSF.sys file on the old harddrive has been corrupted. So I think my two options are, figure out how to repair windows on the old system or figure out how to get my computer to see both at this point. On another topic, would it be worthwhile to clone my old harddrive to my new one and then do a restore, so my 500 gig thinks it is my original dell? There does not appear to be an actual "recovery disk" other than the disk partition mentioned above.