[Coco] Drive freezing / data reovery (WAS: Re: Need to know

[Rob Rosenbrock]

Careful... There are two different variations of the NTFS format. If WinXP sees a new drive formatted with the older format, it will automatically upgrade it without telling you -- the drive is then unreadable by Win2k.

-----Original Message-----
From: "Brian Blake" <random_rodder at yahoo.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: 8/4/07 8:30 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Drive freezing / data reovery (WAS: Re: Need to know

Sound like he has a few options:
1. Hook the drive up as Master, boot the WinXP setup disk and boot to the Admin console and use the /fixmbr command
2. Hook the drive up as Master, boot the WinXP setup disk and do a 'Repair Install'
3. Go with the Linux plan

Windows 2000/XP is supposed to be able import a foreign drive (hook up a drive containing data that was not present at the time the OS was installed). I've done this VERY successfully under Windows 2000. I'm running about 50% in windows XP. Overall, I think I'd rather go with the Linux plan or a boot CD like Bart PE or Hiren's boot CD to recover the data.


Later,

Brian


----- Original Message ----
From: Manny <cocolist at invigorated.org>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 4, 2007 5:37:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Drive freezing / data reovery (WAS: Re: Need to know


Briza wrote:
> Hi Joel.
> 
> The drive still spins and is recognised in the BIOS. The problem is
> the Boot track is gone. I have loaded up Linux and had the drive
> plugged in and I could access the coco archive folders. So in the end
> it was just a simple faulty cable causing me the grief. But still
> have not attempted to hook up both my drives together yet. with my
> new boot disk as my Master, and the crashed drive as a slave unit. 
> The last time I tried them both together. The new drive would not
> load up again. And at the time I used the faulty cable. So I'm hoping
> this time with the new cable that it will not corrupt the new boot
> drive.

Briza, if you can see everything with Linux loaded up, then you should 
be able to copy the information to your new drive. This means loading up 
Linux whilst both drives are hooked up and in place. This also implies 
that Linux can see /both/ drives and access them with reading and 
writing privileges.

One other question, is the new drive running Windows XP or something 
else now?

-M.

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