Primary Slave Drive fails?

Question

Whenever I boot up my computer (I'm running Windows XP Proffesional), it says that my Primary Slave has failed. I press (F1, I believe, all it does is make my computer continue with starting up) and as it contintues to start up, my computer freezes and restarts the start-up only with the same results. There is info on my computer that I need. Is there a way of backing up this info, or is there even a way to help this problem? Thanks

Half of the stuff you have told me, I don't quite understand, but I'll answer best I can. I have more than one drive, and I want to get info off of my main drive: C. Should my info be ok? I don't know either about IDO or that thing. I'll check

Oh and the cable thing. You actually mean taking apart my computer, physically, and disconnecting the cables that lead from this certain drive to the rest of my computer?

Answer 1

Just disconnect the slave drive so that your PC will be able to boot properly and you can access your master drive. You should now consider regularly backing up your important data like in a CD so that you could readily access your files in other PCs.

Answer 2

Do you have an IDE setup? you have a prevalent carry close and a prevalent slale i.e. 2 no longer straightforward drives? in the adventure that your prevalent slave (2d no longer straightforward rigidity) has failed then your prevalent carry close could be ok. have you ever bumped off the jumpers out of your slave rigidity? Which disk are you attempting to get the techniques off?

Answer 3

Do you have an IDE setup?

You have a primary master and a primary slale i.e. 2 hard drives?

If your primary slave (2nd hard drive) has failed then your primary master must be OK.

Have you removed the jumpers from your slave drive?

Which disk are you trying to get the data off?