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New Drive swapping problem
My stepfather has asked me to post this in hopes the IGM can come up with an answer.

He recently tried to move a non-bootable data harddisk with multiple logical drives from a WXPpro SP2 system to another newer WXPpro SP2 system. The drive is a 250Gb Western Digital. The new system sees the new drive in BIOS setup and in Disk manager but is listed as a empty, foreign drive. When he tries to "import foreign disk" it tells him the drive needs to be added to the system configuration before it can be imported. He tried putting it back in the old system and got the same problem.

I think the partition info is lost and needs to be rebuilt. I pointed him to MBRWork 1.07b from [link|http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/utilities.html|http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/utilities.html] but he is having problems getting that to run, says it cannot read the drive. I though he might need a boot disk but ruled that out because this is not a bootable hard drive.

Ideas? Further info needed?

I think I have convinced my setpfather to join the group here so he may take over this thread.
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New Lemme guess
I take it there is data on this drive he doesn't want to lose?

That makes this a real project at this point, one that requires data recovery tools that I'm not terribly familiar with.

If he just wants to put the drive in the machine and doesn't care about whats on it, the software from Western Digital should be able to handle the addition of the drive to the new machine.
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New The data on the drive is critical
There is no other option than that it be recovered.
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New If that's the case...
...you should seek out a proper data recovery company and have it done professionally.


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New couple of suggestions
In order of safety:

1) Use a live CD (like Knoppix as AnotherScott suggested) and attempt to mount the drive with it and copy everything off with rsync or even ftp. Data loss unlikely, cost free.

2) Use [link|http://grc.com/spinrite.htm|SpinRite] to low-level diagnose and repair the drive. Data loss could happen, cost about $90. (When I had a similar problem, I downloaded an eye-patch version to see if would work on my problem, then gladly spent the money for a legit copy.)

3) Send to a recovery service. Data recovery likely, cost likely into the $2-3thousands.

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New Re: Drive swapping problem
what happens if it is returned to the old system?

If it can be read there, you can eliminate some possibilities

he might want to check out Badcopy Pro also

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New As I stated
He tried putting it back in the old system and got the same problem.
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New Re: As I stated
sorry for not reading more closely

still sounds like a job for Badcopy Pro as long as
the drive can be seen

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New I assume it's not the BigLBA problem.
0) Since it didn't work when he put it back, that seems to indicate something else is going on. :-(

1) I assume the new computer doesn't have the [link|http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013|48-bit LBA issue]. The problem sounds similar though. You might want to check the registry to see if this is enabled.

2) Are the jumpers right on the drive?

3) There used to be problems with some hard drive brands not getting along with each other. Does the drive work when it's the only drive in the computer?

4) [link|http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-mirrors/index-en.html|Knoppix] might be a useful tool to help diagnose things. But if the MBRWork disk didn't work, then well... :-(

5) Is it a "dynamic disk"? There are differences between basic and dynamic that are outlined [link|http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;309044&sd=tech|here]. I don't know much about them myself.

HTH a bit.

Cheers,
Scott.
New Re: Drive swapping problem (new thread)
Created as new thread #220959 titled [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=220959|Re: Drive swapping problem]
     Drive swapping problem - (Silverlock) - (9)
         Lemme guess - (bepatient) - (3)
             The data on the drive is critical - (Silverlock) - (2)
                 If that's the case... - (pwhysall)
                 couple of suggestions - (Steve Lowe)
         Re: Drive swapping problem - (andread) - (2)
             As I stated - (Silverlock) - (1)
                 Re: As I stated - (andread)
         I assume it's not the BigLBA problem. - (Another Scott)
         Re: Drive swapping problem (new thread) - (Chester)

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