My hard drive just went kaput. If I get a new one and install it, how do I extract the information from the old one to put onto my new one? Is this possible? Please help.
2007-07-28 05:30:08 · 4 answers · asked by Lance Goodie 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
This is gonna sound crazy.
Take the bad drive, put it in a zip lock freezer bag, seal it, and put it in your freezer over night.
Put your new hard drive in, and install an OS. (make this the master on that channel).
Once that drive is good to go, and the bad drive has been in the freezer over night, remove it, and change the jumper to SLAVE.
Shut down your computer, and install the bad one on the same ribbon cable as your new hard drive (second connector), install the molex for power.
Turn on your computer, and boot to your new OS.
Open My Computer, and see if the old drive shows.
If it does, copy all important things as quickly as you can to your new hard drive.
You need to do this while it is still cold, so work quickly.
If you have time, try to run checkdisk to fix bad sectors.
Start... Run.. chkdsk D: /F (assuming D: is the bad drive)
Good luck.
2007-07-28 05:52:47 · answer #1 · answered by TNguy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are generally right, though a bad drive may have problems loading certain code which is not loaded in safe mode. If the system freezes with the drive doing clicking sounds, it is the drive... Download and run HDTune (freeware version). It has a tab that shows the general "health" of the disk drive. If there are any red or yellow warnings, the drive may be starting to fail. If all health shows good, and your drive does not "click" when hung, then go to another repair shop... Most video lockups are due to drivers or add-on software like Adobe Flash, Bonjour, etc... This is especially true if everything runs in safe mode with no problems - it cannot be hardware if the video runs for hours in safe mode (well, not likley anyway...) If you have control panels for the video card (ATI or Nvidia), try uninstalling the control panels, but leave the drivers installed (just remove the control software). Update all video drivers anyway, to be sure. I had an issue recently where the control panel was causing the crash. (due to video card overclocking enabled, but not used)
2016-03-16 01:30:35 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1st thing is make sure the new hdd is on the end of the IDE cable and install your OS as usually from a fresh install. Then you can install the old hdd on the second slot and it will be your 2nd hdd or slave drive and you can pull all the files you want to keep. You can not install previous installed programs installed on that drive but you can install them from the install cd again. . Or you can get a external hdd holder and just plug in the USB or firewire cable to your computer and use the drive as the D drive and get all the info off of it you might want ie: pics, music, movies...etc..Thanks
2007-07-28 05:40:57 · answer #3 · answered by computer_surplus2005 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
please explain in what way did your drive go kaput as you put it lol, hard drivers go down in many ways,
dose the system bootup, but does not boot into windows,
does the system come up with an error when you boot it up,
need to know what it does before you can say it is really kaput
pm me
2007-07-28 05:46:15 · answer #4 · answered by Carling 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shoulda made a backup, your screwed, starting fresh is the way your going now.
2007-07-28 05:33:47 · answer #5 · answered by TwoLOUD 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋