Second Hard drive help 99

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I am running XP sp2 on my machine and recently hard drive #2 quit. It
contains only photo's that I would like to recover. I suspect it is my
machine and not the hard drive itself. Can I slide this in on my other
machine in place of the existing hard drive #2? I tried it and of course the
system does not identify drive #2 even though one existed there before. What
can I do to read this drive? Any help would be appreciated.


Ray
 
Ray said:
I am running XP sp2 on my machine and recently hard drive #2 quit. It
contains only photo's that I would like to recover. I suspect it is my
machine and not the hard drive itself. Can I slide this in on my other
machine in place of the existing hard drive #2? I tried it and of course the
system does not identify drive #2 even though one existed there before. What
can I do to read this drive? Any help would be appreciated.


Ray
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If it's not recognized in the BIOS in a different computer as an
installed slave drive, assuming it's cabled and jumpered correctly, then
most likely the drive died. Hopefully you have a backup of all the
important data.
 
I am running XP sp2 on my machine and recently hard drive #2 quit. It
contains only photo's that I would like to recover. I suspect it is my
machine and not the hard drive itself. Can I slide this in on my other
machine in place of the existing hard drive #2? I tried it and of course the
system does not identify drive #2 even though one existed there before. What
can I do to read this drive? Any help would be appreciated.


Ray
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If the drive does not show up in "Disk Management" then you are "out of luck."
The drive itself has failed. You can try to locate a disk rescue utility or
if you can afford it, send it out to a hard drive recovery company.
 
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