Quick comp help!!
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- mg33
I just realized a few folders full of older digital photos are still on an old hard drive I swapped out for a larger one earlier this year.
I have my C drive, and a seperate 160 GB drive. It's possible for me to disconnect the 160 and connect the old drive, grab those photos, then hook the 160 back up with no problems, right? It should just recognize them as already formatted drives, right?
Thanks. - this is a pc btw.
- Nairn0
Hmm.. should be. Is the other disk a boot drive, ie. did it have a windows install? if so, you *might* have some user account issues (if it's in My Docs, say). If so, as long as it's not a fucked drive, you can always boot up from that and then copy over again.
Basically - 'yes'. But it might be fiddly :)
- mg330
No. It was strictly a storage drive. Boot is only on C.
- Nairn0
ah. then no problem.
just make sure you turn your pc off first!
(I'm having a real moment of deja vu here)
- mg330
haha at deja vu.
I realized recently that I can't find all the discs from my old Sony digital camera (one of the ones that stored on those little 3" cd-roms. All the photos from when I went to NYC and Flash Forward in 2001 are on there. They're also on my old hard drive along with tons of other travel photos. Those discs are somewhere in some box in my basement storage space, no way I'm pulling all that crap out to look for them!
- ********0
i'm not sure but i think you have to enter bios/setup after switching the chord and let it recognize the hard drive if it's a IDE disk.
if it's a SATA disk you can just switch the cable.
- Nairn0
i wish we'd hurry up and start getting subdermal holographic storage implants with intelligent auto-managing. I'll be damned if I can continue having to organise the multitude of data i have on all my usbs, cds, hds and flops.
it's very tiresome. hurry up, future.
- mg330
Well, nothing worked with the 20G, and now that I've reconnected the 160 (which I use all the time) it isn't recognized.
Disk Manager refers to it as "Disk 1 Dynamic - Foreign.
What is the proper method to re-recognize the drive and it's contents?
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- mg330
Thanks Witt, that was what I needed.
You know how it is, no matter what your heart races at the thought of losing data.
It looks like I might have actually deleted everything off the old drive because it was empty after import.
Basement, here I come.