I tired to reinstall Windows, but according to them my HDD is damaged and needs formatting. Is there any way I can bypass the O/S and transfer the files to my USB backup drive or another slave drive?
2007-09-16 18:23:40 · 6 answers · asked by A M 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Dont format that drive, you didnt did you?..... If not you can try installing that drive as a slave drive on a working computer, then copying the files from the old drive to the working computer. It still may not recognize the drive, sounds like a virus.. In that case you can do a search for file recovery software and purchase it or send it off and have someone do it for you....
If you want to do it on your computer you will need to borrow or purchase a new drive and load windows on it so you can install the bad drive as a slave drive... Note.. YOu must know how to set the jumpers on the drive and how to install them... If you dont feel comfortable, take the old drive to a computer repair person and have them try this procedure... do not do anything else with that drive until you recover your files.. Then reformat..
2007-09-16 18:34:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
first try in making your HDD as an slave and connect with other HDD as master with os in working condition then try out installing some recovery softwares like pc recovery or recover tool to recover the needed files ... these are the possible ways ...
or try installing the operating system in some other partition of your HDD and backup the video files
2007-09-16 18:43:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try connect it to another PC as a slave and run a program called GetDataBack. it has version for NTFS or FAT32.. use the one that match your system.. I recover almost 42GB of my data using this tool.. This tool can even find files on a formatted HDD. Read the docs.. good luck..
2007-09-20 17:55:29 · answer #3 · answered by jackel_sinister 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. Maybe. Set up your new drive as Master and your old drive as Slave (Jumper on the back to MA, jumper on the old drive to SL.) Boot from the new drive and look at the old drive for your files.
2007-09-16 18:31:17 · answer #4 · answered by Cirric 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Try " Undelete Plus".. Hope it work
James C
2007-09-16 20:46:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who is according to them?
2007-09-16 18:31:20 · answer #6 · answered by PCSTech 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋