Since this wasn't adressed, "tot", "kaput", "defunct", "deceased", "in a
condition like or similar to that of a human being who has had the
misfortune to occupy the space through which one or more projectiles
launched by a closed-breech powder-actuated launching system of the type
commonly known as a 'firearm' were passing.
Generally cheaper to find a replacement board on ebay. If you're paying
someone to do it then it's cheaper to just get a new board.
I put drives of bad computers into a second computer sytem, boot from
the Knoppix Live CDrom, copy the files over to a known good drive, and
save files in that manner!
Try it with drives that were formatted using a RAID controller and that were
part of a RAID-0 array and you'll find that that approach doesn't work
unless you have a compatible RAID controller. You have to reconstruct the
RAID, or extract the data sector by sector and then make a software
emulation of the RAID controller, which is a lot more programming than most
folks want to be bothered with doing when a replacement RAID controller
costs maybe the value of a couple of hours labor for someone with the
skills to do that.
BUT, if you are talking moving your drives over to another computer, to
boot up XP or it's ilk, it probably will through you into fits! M$
didn't want that, and so, it can be the dickens trying to do what the
MOTHERSHIP prohibits!
Well, actually, just moving the drives to another computer causes no
problems at all for Windows XP or any other version of Windows as long as
the disk controller is supported by a driver that is either a standard part
of Windows or was installed on the source machine. XP will require that
you reactivate, which takes about five minutes worst-case.
You seem to be trying to make a Windows vs Linux case of some kind, which is
pretty silly since it's a hardware issue.
