hard drive fails S.M.A.R.T need help.

[dakota137]

My old hard drive suddenly stopped being able to boot my comptuer so I got a new one, reinstalled windows and transfered all my music etc... to the new drive. My question(s) are:

Is my old hard drive salvagable? / how do I fix it?

How do I get all my old programs off of the drive that I can't boot off of onto my new drive? short of copying the whole drive onto the newer bigger one.


Any good software for this or advice?

[minsonngo]

Slave your old HDD to the new system and see if you extract your data from it.


You can also download the HDD manufacturer's disk utility and run a test on it. If the test results show failure, it is probably something you can't repair.

[dakota137]

I do have them both running and can access all the information, just can't get any of the old programs to run or transfer (from the broken drive to the new one). I've gotten everything else moved.

Thanks for the help.

[minsonngo]

Your going to have to reinstall the programs in the new HDD.

You cannot just copy over installed programs because the registry files aren't there in your new HDD.

[dakota137]

Don't have many of the disks (bundled software), so there's no way around losing them...

[minsonngo]

Yeah, there isn't really a way around it. Or at least, one that I can think of.

[glc]

Use a utility to clone the old drive to the new one, THEN do a Windows repair reinstall.