reinstalling old hard drive to take some pictures of ti

[dx100uk]

sorry the natives are being restless this afternoon!!

no silly me
i didn't exp myself.

put your working HDD back in and get the PC going OK as normal.
leave off the CD & DVD drives so you have a free ribbon.

once the pc has rebooted ok and shutdown again.

put the old HDD on the end of the IDE lead as a master

reboot and tell me what is listed for onboard drives under disk manage of my computer/manage

dx

[chrismac]

sorry but when i go to use the old hdd nothing happens the computer does not start, hdd connected to original ribbon,old hdd connected to cd ribbon when i go to my computer disc drive c is there and its comming up with a floppy being there but its disconnected, when i go to disc drive c and properties the 2 hdd are there

[dx100uk]

now you're confusing me.

btw i take it you're using win xp?

right click my computer
hit manage
then hit
disk management

disk1 will be c:
disk 2 [what details do you have.]


dx

[chrismac]

this is what i have now, yes disc c: then below that TMQ01T4, Partition, FAT32, healthy(unknown partition)

then in a box below that disc 0 is c: online 74.52 gb healthy system, and disc 1 is tmq01t4 online 35.86gb healthy unknown partition
hope this is if some help to you and thanks for your help

[EDDIE]

The hardrive with the operating system on it will be set at active primary if u like so your old hardrive with the old operating system on it will be set as active or primary thats why ure having so much problems its not just the jumper settings its a software problem when you are adding a second hardrive via an ide cable you have to use software like partition magic which will regonise the drive and u can disable the old hardrive partion it and so on ?And you better watch and not mess to much about with the partion walls u could lose your info????
It might be easier to by a special cable that allows u to connect a hardrive externally to a usb port then u can take off the photos u need u would get that cable out of any computer shop .
Once u have all the info of the harddrive destroy it so no one else can take info of it

[dx100uk]

yep partition magic is the answer

i was also doing this msg till eddie posted the above [thanks]

i'll leave this msg as another method to possly sort the issue.

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ok thats twice you've got that
so i'll go with there being some issue with the partition on the HDD

you are going to need the ultimatebootcd

from this torrent site
http://linuxtracker.org/index.php?pa...ve=1&tracker=0

then burn it as an .iso [image] to a blank CD using whatever software you have to do that.

once you have made it, you will need to boot from it
run file system tools,
then boot manager
the partition will have a hidden status on it.
Change it to unhidden

and see what happens then

obviously you will have to put your DVD drive back on to do all this and put your old HHD as a slave to the DVD drive

let me know how you get on.

dx

[chrismac]

ok thanks both, so its the ultimiate pc repair cd i down load,

where about is the run file system tools setting, to get boot manager

[dx100uk]

download the .iso file
burn it as an image to a blank cd

set your pc to boot from cd drive in bios

then let is run

you will see the menu from there

dx