The Saga Continues.. my gf's machine and her hard drive

[The Stigenator]

Well I was all set to backup her hdd with lost and found but some reason it doesnt load after using the zip drivers.

So I hooked it to mine, and her western digital Caviar 34300 doesnt auto detect as a secondary master on my computer but when I plug the cables back to my cdrw it detects it. All I did is take it off her primary master and put it on my secondary cable.. What am I doing wrong?


It is a 5 minute operation.. and its taken me a hour already.

 

[veryape]

Was it the master drive on her system? If so you have to set the drive to slave by the jumpers on the back of the drive.

 

[Sluggo]

Change her jumpers to be a slave and put it as a slave on your primary IDE. Thats the way I had to do the same thing a few months back.

Sluggo

 

[The Stigenator]

Well that is fixed now, 4 hrs later... I got it all backed in.
Her western digital didnt auto detect as my secondary master (i unplugged my cdrw and plugged her in), so I had to retrive the clynder, heads, and sector info and manually put them in.

That has now been fixed, however I couldnt retrive one of her most important files. The hardest part is to tell her that she installed Win98 about 2-3 times, for I found the windoze directory repeating itself.. Man It sure hurts to go thru 2000+ directories..

Oh well I hope she will be happy after this.

By the way I am using her machine to post this message.

TGG

 

[Bozo Galora]

Drop her and marry Wombat Woman

 

[Ghost]

Well, Good Guy, I'll give you credit for going through all that. You must <gasp> love her, or you're just a helluva guy in general...