Getting data from old drive

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I need to pull some data from an IDE drive that was in another system with a bad CPU. Can I just set the drive jumper to slave, plug it into a working system and have XP recognize it as a second, non-boot drive? The disk is a working, 30GB drive that normally would boot to XP home, but the motherboard is being replaced and I want to make a backup of important data before a full wipe and re-install. The current motherboard is bad due to a cooling fan lockup that cooked the CPU. The cooling fan hold-down is also broken on the socket, so am getting a new mobo. Thanks for any info.
 
Sure, shouldn't be a problem if the HD is functional. You'll probably have
to reboot after initial recognition.

Fritz
 
The short answer is "Yes" you can do as you suggest. Depending on how your
original install went, your second drive may be recognized as a bootable
drive by XP's boot manager. In that case, you will be presented with a menu
so you can choose between the two; select the regular boot drive, and you
are home free.

I know you didn't ask, but I think you should know the installation of a new
mobo for your drive will probably not be as smooth as you might like. Don't
get me wrong, it can be done, and is a good idea, but XP's activation will
most likely throw a fit. If you fire things up right after you install the
new mobo, you may be blue-screened in a most uninformative manner. I don't
recall the exact message, but the gist of it is that your equipment has
melted and will never be the same again. <smile>

Here's the real info, including what to do about it, from the MS
knowledgebase:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316401&Product=winxp
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Dave K. said:
I need to pull some data from an IDE drive that was in another system with
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a bad CPU. Can I just set the drive jumper to slave, plug it into a working
system and have XP recognize it as a second, non-boot drive? The disk is a
working, 30GB drive that normally would boot to XP home, but the motherboard
is being replaced and I want to make a backup of important data before a
full wipe and re-install. The current motherboard is bad due to a cooling
fan lockup that cooked the CPU. The cooling fan hold-down is also broken on
the socket, so am getting a new mobo. Thanks for any info.
 
why not thry this instead. disconnect your existing hard
drive from you working pc and swap it with the harddisk
you want to back up, boot up the o/s in that hard disk,
then create a ogical partion, so that you can transfer
all important files into it, and finally use Norton Ghost
to clone that partion,
once done with cloning, shut down your system and change
back into the original hard disk, create the same partion
(with the same name and size) and use Norton ghost to
restore the backup files that you have clone.
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I need to pull some data from an IDE drive that was in
Click to expand...
another system with a bad CPU. Can I just set the drive
jumper to slave, plug it into a working system and have
XP recognize it as a second, non-boot drive? The disk is
a working, 30GB drive that normally would boot to XP
home, but the motherboard is being replaced and I want to
make a backup of important data before a full wipe and re-
install. The current motherboard is bad due to a cooling
fan lockup that cooked the CPU. The cooling fan hold-
down is also broken on the socket, so am getting a new
mobo. Thanks for any info.
 
Thanks for the suggestion. However, I think the problem
with that is that the old HD was installed on a PC with a
drastically different mobo than the working PC, thus I
will get the same problems that another writer suggested
above, e.g., the boot will think my mobo has melted.

I will let you know how it goes.

Dave
 
I agree about the mobo problems. I am getting the data
off because I plan to wipe the disk and start over with
new mobo drivers and new XP install. Will let you know
how it goes.

Dave K.
 
One issue to note... If your old drive was NTFS and protected ie your files
"made private" or whatever the termonology XP Pro uses then your new install
of XP will see the drive but will not allow you to read the files. If your
drive was in FAT then this is not an issue. If you encounter this issue
connect the old as master and boot to the old install and transfer your
documents somewhere and then restore them to the new drive.
 
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