Hard Drive misadventures

[Cyber 0]

This isn't as crucial as I'd say it is, but it would be helpful if anyone knows a way around this.

 

Right now I'm using a simple 20gb hard-drive, but decided to use an older one (9gb)as a slave. The problem is, the old hard drive has corrupt content (Nothing a format couldn't solve) As I set it as a slave, hook it up and boot the computer, everything starts swell. The BIOS likes the idea, and continues. Even Win XP's load up screen smiles at this. Once WinXP starts, however, I ended up frowning: the screen goes black, and the computer freezes. I'm guessing that once windows scans the hd during startup, it wacks out, though I don't know enough just to say that as a definite explanation. Any ideas on what's going on, or even better, how to solve the issue?

 

Oh yes, I've tried running the recovery console too, but it also froze.

[mister_man 0]

What format is the corrupt HDD, NTFS or FAT32? If it's FAT32 you could try a Win 9x bootdisk to access it or a Windows 9x based system. If it's NTFS u could try Win 2k based system to read it.

[CUViper 0]

If you are just planning to reformat the drive, and don't need to try to recover the data, you could boot off the WinXP CD to format and/or repartition it.

[CUViper 0]

oops, shows how closely I read your post - Recovery console froze? How about if you act like you're gonna do a new install, and then on the part where it asks where you want to put it, delete the partition on the corrupted drive....

[Cyber 0]

It's was used as an NTFS drive. That is, emphasis on "was." I'll try these options out after the holidays and post the results, thanks for the help.

 

Happy Holidays

[Cyber 0]

Well, it worked

 

Thanks for the help guys, I suppose sooner or later I'll probably be able to fix this stuff on my own.

Probably.