Okay, I'm reformating hard drive for my friend, he brought computer over, it wont boot up but will start, He wants me to get all his files from his computer to mine b4 reformating, First i got his hard drive out and put it in mine, but he doesn't have that little thing on the back of it to set it to slave, so that didn't work, because i can't set it to slave... Then i thought we could hook usb to usb up, but that didn't work, so now im trying to set up a network computer to computer, i have dsl, and a linyks router, and ethernet cords, i tried to set up network and it sais i need to run wizard on both of them, witch isn't possible, so what do i do?
2006-12-08 15:13:38 · 5 answers · asked by cashfan28 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
You shouldn't need to set it to slave. If you leave the jumper off, it should default to CS (cable select) - jump into your BIOS and make sure its set to detect drives on all channels and restart and it should pick it up. Otherwise get an external USB enclosure and pop the drive into it and connect with USB - which also should work. Since he doesn't have a working computer the network option isn't going to work.
2006-12-08 15:22:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-30 08:28:27 · answer #2 · answered by gnegy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think there is going to be a quick resolution to that. Are you both running the same OS? There are adapter cables available to let you hook up a hard drive via usb (available at http://www.tigerdirect.com ) Have one myself, that would allow you to access his hard drive and down load what you need off of it before formatting it... careful, if you reformat the OS will be gone, be sure you have the startup disks you need before doing any of this. the adapter cable is called usb to IDE .
2006-12-08 15:29:36 · answer #3 · answered by alk99 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not sure if this will do the trick but i will assume some sort of important windows file is corrupted or missing id say if he has the origional windows installation cd put it in boot from cd and u should get a choice 2 repair if that fails maybe install a a second operating system and possibly u could access the files u want from that 1 just dont delete or format the existing partition
2006-12-08 15:21:58 · answer #4 · answered by dazed_ maunder 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
When you format a drive all the data in that drive will be erased. I can give you a link that deals with hard drive problems.
Some RAM/ hard drive problems can be easily fixed yourself by using easily available tools. I found the info at http://fixit.in useful
2006-12-09 18:53:55 · answer #5 · answered by RAS 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋