I woke up to a dead HDD today....i HAVE to have a few files on it. I have a 2nd 80gig HDD as a slave drive, and the drive that died had my OS on it. If I put it in the freezer, will it still boot the OS? Or do I have to have the dead drive set up as a slave? That would require me to install an OS on my slave drive....

11/17/2005 8:20:51 AM

try it as a slave first and see how far you get

11/17/2005 8:21:33 AM

can i install an OS on my current slave drive without losing teh data that's already on there?

11/17/2005 8:23:10 AM

yes

11/17/2005 8:31:29 AM

You have to partition the slave drive to make room for the OS if you don't want to lose any data. Use a program like PartitionMagic to do this.

11/17/2005 9:39:56 AM

http://brentroad.com/message_search.aspx?type=topic§ion=3&searchstring=freezer&username=&usertype=match&sortby=date&sortorder=descending&page=

might find something interesting there

11/17/2005 9:40:49 AM

yeah, i already read all those threads before posting. Thanks anyway guys.

11/17/2005 10:15:57 AM

Quote :

" If I put it in the freezer, will it still boot the OS?"

well the idea behind the freezer trick it it makes your drive operational for a short amount of time...not that ive ever seen it work. so if it made your drive operational you could boot to it, and quickly get the files off.

othewise, you will be installing windows to the secondary anyway right...so you can use your pc again? if so maybe do that first, then try freezer trick and plug that one in as a secondary.

11/17/2005 10:21:12 AM

yeah, i was just trying to get around installing an OS on my secondary drive. I'm prolly just gonna buy a new drive and make that my primary.

I'm just gonna say fuck it. I'll rewrite those papers that I lost

11/17/2005 10:24:50 AM

don't even worry about putting an OS on the slave HD - why don't you just get a bootable OS like Knoppix? you can boot into knoppix, mount your local drives, and then yank the files off.

11/20/2005 11:44:24 AM

^
ding ding ding

11/20/2005 11:46:33 AM

^^ Assuming the bad HDD is recognized

11/20/2005 9:59:10 PM

if irolablunt is an alias i know whom it is

11/20/2005 10:15:35 PM