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About a week and a half ago my puter and hard drive completely crashed - all my mp3s were stored on a separate secondary hard drive so I thought they were probably safe. Today I've re-installed Windows but when I try to reconnect the secondary hard drive, the computer doesn't seem to be able to read it and doesn't boot up.

Anyone have any ideas what's going on? I need my MOOZIK!!!

― Venga, Saturday, 31 May 2003 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm unclear what you mean by "doesn't boot up". The 2nd hard drive won't spin up? The 2nd hard drive isn't recognized by Windows? Or the computer won't boot up unless the 2nd drive is left unattached?

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 31 May 2003 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

The computer won't boot up unless the second hard drive is unattached.

― Venga, Saturday, 31 May 2003 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

SCSI or IDE?

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 31 May 2003 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)

IDE

― Venga, Saturday, 31 May 2003 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Do you know if the second drive is set up to be a slave device?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 31 May 2003 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes Dan I'm purdy sure it is.

― Venga, Saturday, 31 May 2003 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)

You weren't using a utility like One Big Drive to link the two drives as one C drive (probably not!)? Is the drive being recognized by the BIOS (hit the DEL key when you reboot - should be under one of the first settings - there may also be a setting to auto-detect your drives under the BIOS)? You may also want to check to see if there are any yellow triangles with exclamation marks in them under the Device Manager in the Control Panel (System). I've probably just made things worse!

― Bryan (Bryan), Saturday, 31 May 2003 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

When you say "boot" do you mean start up at all or boot to Windows?

― Bryan (Bryan), Saturday, 31 May 2003 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean it doesn't boot to Windows.

― Venga, Saturday, 31 May 2003 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

You reformatted the C drive before reinstalling Windows? Could be that the D drive (unless there are more partitions) just doesn't have a drive letter associated with it (?). I use Partition Magic whenever I reformat - makes things easy (and I'm too dumb to know how to do stuff like that under DOS, plus you can resize your partitions, etc without losing any info with PM). SEAN C TO THREAD!!!

― Bryan (Bryan), Saturday, 31 May 2003 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Just play the CDs you burned the mp3s from!

*ducks*

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Saturday, 31 May 2003 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)

ok, do you have the hard drives connected to separate IDE sockets on the motherboard, or are they on the same chain?

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 31 May 2003 23:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Separate sockets, Mr D.

― Venga, Sunday, 1 June 2003 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)

then it ought not to be set to slave

― ron (ron), Sunday, 1 June 2003 00:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah well. Thanks for all your suggestions but it looks like the drive itself is completely fecked. I rang my mate who installed the thing, we got a boot up disk and it still couldn't read it.

Fuckinell, I'm so gutted. TWO THOUSAND tracks: gone. This is the second or third worst day of my life.

― Venga, Sunday, 1 June 2003 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

venga boys?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 1 June 2003 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

you might try taking it to a data recovery place or something.

― ron (ron), Sunday, 1 June 2003 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Wouldn't that be extortionately expensive, Ron?

― Venga, Sunday, 1 June 2003 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

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