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Sabres042

10-09-2007, 11:47 AM

My friend needs some pixs from her hard drive. I set it up as a slave and it shows up as drive F: with my master as C. When I click on F it wants to reformat. How can I just read and save the info without reformatting?

The drive F: is saying that it is RAW it is IDE drive C is NTFS it is ATA

Both hard drives have XP

Is there any possibility of recovering the data?

Cricket

10-09-2007, 12:46 PM

Need more information. What operating systems are involved and which file system is used on each hard drive?

:) Cricket

Sabres042

10-09-2007, 01:46 PM

I edited my original post to give more info. I was not sure whether to edit post or post reply. What is proper protocol?

EzyStvy

10-09-2007, 01:49 PM

Was the drive in working condition when it came out of the friends computer? If not, then odds are it's toast.

glc

10-09-2007, 03:22 PM

http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

Sabres042

10-09-2007, 03:39 PM

As far as I know the HD was working fine. She was having a problem with Keyboard Controller chip. When turning on the computer - beep code indicated Keyboard. We then tried a usb keyboard instead of ps2 and it worked but when we restarted later even the usb ports wouldn't work and beeping started again. I think the is a motherboard issue. I would be happy to retrieve the data from her computer HP Pavillian a220n but I can't get past the beeping!

Any help is appreciated