Access Bad Hard Drive

Hey Everyone,

I have a Dell Dimension E310 that we bought for the wife to mess with. It's about 2 years old and recently began receiving a blue windows screen at start-up. I made a few calls to a hardware support Friend who suggested the drive fried. I purchased a new western digital 500 gig drive and installed it. Everything is good except I'd really like to access the old drive for my grandson's photos and other personal stuff. I left the drive in the machine since there was an addition cable hookup. Is this possible? Can anyone shed any light? Please advise.

Thanks,

T

 

if you still run into problems and you really need or want the photos you can run a program called "Sprinrite" on the drive
It may help recover the drive temporarily and give you a chance to recover the data

 

Thank you !

Thanks for thge speedy reply Pete. I'll try that when I get home from the office this evening and let you know what I come up with.

T

 

Thank you !



Thanks. I'll try each way and let you know.

 

Good evening everyone, at least here in Tennessee. I tried the things you guys suggested with my recovery, but can not get anything to recognize the old drive. If I go into setup, it looks like the drive is showing, but doesn't show once windows starts. H.E.L.P.?

Thanks,

T

 

That's right Pete. When I hit F2 and look at the drives, 2 hard drives are showing. I'm not sure how I should configure the set up concerning the RAID, so I've left it as is.


Thanks again for your response,

T