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I just replaced a friends hard drive after BIOS message to back up data and
replace hard drive. HP recovery CDs worked great on the new 160GB drive. I
then connected both 160GB drives in parallel with new as master and old as
slave hoping to be able to recover data. The old drive is recognized in
Windows Explorer and Device Manager says it's working OK. However, when I
click on the drive in Windows Explorer I get a message "drive not formatted"
"format now ?". New drive has WinXP SP-2. Old drive has WinXP SP-1. I was
able to run Panda's SAFE CD to scan the old drive partially, but the scan
stopped. It read and scanned several files before hanging. Both drives
partitioned NTFS. Any suggestions before we turn this drive over to the
disaster recovery experts who charge big bucks?
replace hard drive. HP recovery CDs worked great on the new 160GB drive. I
then connected both 160GB drives in parallel with new as master and old as
slave hoping to be able to recover data. The old drive is recognized in
Windows Explorer and Device Manager says it's working OK. However, when I
click on the drive in Windows Explorer I get a message "drive not formatted"
"format now ?". New drive has WinXP SP-2. Old drive has WinXP SP-1. I was
able to run Panda's SAFE CD to scan the old drive partially, but the scan
stopped. It read and scanned several files before hanging. Both drives
partitioned NTFS. Any suggestions before we turn this drive over to the
disaster recovery experts who charge big bucks?