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<blockquote data-quote="13echo4" data-source="post: 150536" data-attributes="member: 198839"><p>Your more than welcome wolsty. if you have the old hdd set to slave you should'nt have a jumper on it. that makes it a slave. on your new hdd to have it on master the jumper should be on the far left as your looking at it, cable select will be the next 2 pins one spot to the right.</p><p>i noticed you said your bio doesnt see you 2nd drive, it doesnt have to if you have the jumpers set right xp will see your drive and give you a balloon sating new hardware has been reconized if you click on the balloon it'll tell you what it is. go to "my computer" and you should see the drive click on it to open it just like you would the c: drive. then find the folders you want to back up. you can send them to the new hdd or to a disc which ever pleases you. now i believe this would be the easiest for you to do.in that you wont back up alot of junk you dont want. this way you pick what to keep or not.</p><p>after you got the data you want recovered i can walk you thru debugging that old hdd and that will wipe it completely clean. there would be no way of ever getting that info again. then reformat the drive and you have extra storage space.</p><p>i'm glad to hear you salveged that old hdd. theres alot of resources laying around in storage. alot of people dont use it. good for you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="13echo4, post: 150536, member: 198839"] Your more than welcome wolsty. if you have the old hdd set to slave you should'nt have a jumper on it. that makes it a slave. on your new hdd to have it on master the jumper should be on the far left as your looking at it, cable select will be the next 2 pins one spot to the right. i noticed you said your bio doesnt see you 2nd drive, it doesnt have to if you have the jumpers set right xp will see your drive and give you a balloon sating new hardware has been reconized if you click on the balloon it'll tell you what it is. go to "my computer" and you should see the drive click on it to open it just like you would the c: drive. then find the folders you want to back up. you can send them to the new hdd or to a disc which ever pleases you. now i believe this would be the easiest for you to do.in that you wont back up alot of junk you dont want. this way you pick what to keep or not. after you got the data you want recovered i can walk you thru debugging that old hdd and that will wipe it completely clean. there would be no way of ever getting that info again. then reformat the drive and you have extra storage space. i'm glad to hear you salveged that old hdd. theres alot of resources laying around in storage. alot of people dont use it. good for you. [/QUOTE]
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