Will putting a new partition on a slave drive wipe it out?

[BRIANVD04]

If I installed a second partition on my slave drive would it wipe all
the files out?

 

[Timothy Daniels]

"BRIANVD04" asked:

If I installed a second partition on my slave drive would it wipe all
the files out?

Not unless you deleted or formatted the existing partition.

*TimDaniels*

 

[CWatters]

"BRIANVD04" asked:

Why would that matter? You do have backups don't you? Is that screech I can
hear the sound of your hard drive failing?

If you use the right program to add a new partition it should be fine - but
accidents happen.

 

[BRIANVD04]

All I want to do is get the info off of the drive. The slave is
recognized in bios, but when windows is trying to reload it keeps
rebooting it. I tried connecting it to my burner ribbon, but the
same then kept happening, then I disabled all the other boot up
drives and just had the primary enabled, but that didn't work either.
So I was wondering if I installed another partition in the slave
drive and booted up from that, then I could copy the info from drive
to the new one. But what program do you suggest I use. Can I just
use the windows boot up disk?

 

[BRIANVD04]

I am almost positive that the drive has viruses on it, it's just
question also of how can I get the comptuer to recoginize the slav
and clean it

 

[CWatters]

All I want to do is get the info off of the drive. The slave is
recognized in bios, but when windows is trying to reload it keeps
rebooting it.

Have you reied all the usual tricks like booting in safe mode or booting
from the CD and doing a repair install?

I tried connecting it to my burner ribbon, but the
same then kept happening, then I disabled all the other boot up
drives and just had the primary enabled, but that didn't work either.
So I was wondering if I installed another partition in the slave
drive and booted up from that, then I could copy the info from drive
to the new one. But what program do you suggest I use. Can I just
use the windows boot up disk?

The chances of messing up are high. This forum regularly gets posts like
from people who have formatted the wrong partition or installed XP installed
in wrong partition or just messed up the partitioning (a power cut in the
middle of creating a partition can make a right mess). Not worth the risk in
my view.

I'd go buy a replaement drive.. Take out BOTH your existing drives out and
do a fresh install on the new one. Then add your other drives back as slaves
and backup them up to CD/DVD using something like Ghost. Then you can
experiment with trying to recover your data. When you have finished put the
the spare drive in an external enclosure and use it as a backup target.

 

[craigm]

All I want to do is get the info off of the drive. The slave is
recognized in bios, but when windows is trying to reload it keeps
rebooting it. I tried connecting it to my burner ribbon, but the
same then kept happening, then I disabled all the other boot up
drives and just had the primary enabled, but that didn't work either.
So I was wondering if I installed another partition in the slave
drive and booted up from that, then I could copy the info from drive
to the new one. But what program do you suggest I use. Can I just
use the windows boot up disk?

Try booting with a Linux 'live CD'. Then you may be able to burn the
files you want to a CD. (Does require 2 CD drives and the slave needs to
be a burner.)

This will avoid the Windows virus you think you have.

craigm