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hard drive partition problem
Name: David Date: November 11, 2002 at 20:40:50 Pacific OS: 98 CPU/Ram: 450/64
Comment:
Hey!
My problem is that i'm trying to access my hard drive as a slave. the problem is that there is some info on the drive i need but partition is set as non-msdos and it is active. this happenned when i installed ez-bios about a year ago. it worked fine as a slave untill i switched it to another computer. now it detects but windows and dos wont give it a letter cause of the partition. someone help! i need this data quick!
Name: Spike Date: November 11, 2002 at 21:25:13 Pacific
Reply:
I know there are programs out there to alter partitions and save the data........like DiskCommander........but if time and money are obstacles can you install the drive in another system and replicate the setup? Then you could transfer the data and do what you like to the drive
Spike
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Response Number 2
Name: Spike Date: November 11, 2002 at 21:27:08 Pacific
Reply:
didn't want to come across dumb.......just meant that...is there a way to duplicate the setup that worked?
Spike
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Response Number 3
Name: wawadave Date: November 11, 2002 at 22:02:21 Pacific
Reply:
try partion magic
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Response Number 4
Name: tech-fred Date: November 11, 2002 at 23:08:45 Pacific
Reply:
If you can put it back in the old system, that would be the best. Provided you haven't changed the Boot Drive.
The problem is that the EZ-BIOS was added to the Boot Drive. If you have the EZ-BIOS install floppies and they are bootable they might work.
That is the major problem of disk overlay software, if you change the configuration or if the other drive dies, you can't get to the data.
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