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[chrisp909]

New Sony Vaio computer, old gateway (quantum) HDD. BIOS sees the HDD, and in disk manager (XP OS) the volume has a name "gateway", it is fat32, it's healthy and active on disk 1. When right click on the volume all selections are greyed out except delete partition.

The system disk (disk 0) has two partitions and both have ntfs.

We want to recover the info on the old HDD if possible. The gateway computer the disk was originally in was damaged in a fire there was no visable damage done to the disk itself. Any comments or suggestions not containing the phrases "sorry dude" or "screwed the pooch" would be appreciated.

 

[TyrantSSV]

Try to use the DOS-formatted (or Win95, 98, ..) diskette to boot, run fdisk, select 2nd HDD and mark the partition on it as non-active.
Than try again in XP..

 

[wpfaff]

Do you have the jumpers on the gateway drive set correctly? If its set to master it should be on the 2nd IDE port also if your CD-Rom is on 2nd IDE port it may be set to master then set your gatewy drive to slave.
Good Luck