Intel cpu to AMD?

[mutt511]

My intel tower crashed and burned and I fired up my AMD tower. I took my slave drive out of the old computer and installed it in the new AMD powered computer and windows tells me the drive is inaccessible. There is no OS on the slave drive just a bunch of files that I want. Is there a way to fix this problem? I am running windows 2000sp4. anyhelp would be greatly appreciated.

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[wahnula]

More info please, IDE or SATA??? If IDE, first place to look is jumper settings on both drives.

 

[mutt511]

IDE and they are jumpered as master and slave.

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[Lemon13]

some hdd´s wont work together, use the 2nd ide 2 connect the hdd.
is it recognized in bios/device manager/disk manager?

 

[mutt511]

Lemon, that is what I don't understand, it is recognized in the bios and device manager. However, when I click on it to open it in "my computer" it say drive is not accessible.

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[Lemon13]

and in disk manager? does it get a drive letter? in case not, just assign one 2 it!

 

[Freestone]

Did you have a program called GoBack running on the Intel tower?

 

[mutt511]

it gives it a drive letter but still says it is not accessible. as for the GoBack program, wouldn't matter I can't access any drive on the intel tower, the motherboard went kapoot.

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[Freestone]

Well if you had GoBack installed on your old system it would matter as it changes your partitions to a partition type that Windows doesn't recognize. These changes would apply to any slave drive. In that case you would normally install GoBack on the new system, thereby restoring access to the older partitions. This is not the only solution, but usually the easiest.

GoBack has bit more users on this and other forums than you would think.

 

[mutt511]

My computer was invaded by too many viruses to count and despite many efforts from the people on here I could not get rid of them. I know the information is still on the HD's but not sure how to get to it without reinfecting my new computer.

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