Hard disk recovery

[jfkuser]

Hi,

I have two computers..one running with windows ME and one with Windows XP.

My Windows ME computer is down . I took the hard disk from down computer and connected it to Windows XP computer thru hardware interface called 2.5" aluminium external enclosure which I got from COMPUSA.

After connecting the Windows XP machine recongnises the new hard disk but its not able to read it. I cant see it in explorer. The disk manager shows that this disk is not initialized and unallocated. I do not want to format the disk. I just want to recover the data. Is there any way I can recover this data from windows ME hard disk?

Thanks in advance
j

 

[edfair]

Before I would let XP possibly mess something up I would get a boot disk for ME or 98se and see if fdisk can see it as a valid file system.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[Lemon13]

why is the computer down?
if it´s the harddisk, your pc finds it in bios and xp in explorer, so the disk sounds fine. have you tried to boot from it (set as 1st bootdevice)?

i recommend a backup first, get ghost 2003 and put it on a bootable disk (9x/me). bevor u start make sure u have a drive where u can write the image to (size is ~ used space on me hdd or partition u wanne backup, drive should be fat32 formatted).
start ghost, choose me hdd/partition and create image.

try if hdd is bootable (me might complain about new/missing hardware and stuff, cancel every driver installation (me is more tolerant than xp/w2k), me should do a safety start and you should be able to save the data on another drive.if not why?! (i.e. you could write the image to another hdd....).

cheers

 

[Freestone]

Was a program called GoBack installed on the drive when it was running under ME? If so, XP will give these type of symptoms when it doesn't have Goback installed too.

 

[micker377]

Are both hard drives MSFT format? FAT32 can't "see" MSFT. Does the laptop drive have any kind of "overlay" on it to make it large enough for Win ME?