Data recovery.

I have an I.B.M. machine which is in need of operating system reinstall. This p.c. has the recovery image stored on the hard drive, which you iniate with the F11 key.

This machine is to the point of not booting into Windows even in safe mode.

There is data sitting on the hard drive that I do not want to lose.

What I am thinking of doing is pulling the hard drive out of the I.B.M. and installing it into my Compaq as a slave drive. Then accessing the data and save it to the master, then burn it to c.d.r

Do you see any problems doing this, to recover the data ?

Should the Compaq machine see the IBM drive as a plug and play slave drive ?

Thanks.

 

As long as it's a slave drive and using a drive letter that the BIOS doesn't recognize as bootable, there should be no problem with fetching the data.

 

Why not burn it directly to the cdr after setting it up as the slave?? The Compaq should already have the master set as the boot drive.