Re: IDE fried, SATA will not boot

"Nick" <area5pr yahoo.com> wrote:


I know because the IDE drive had been misbehaving for the last few
weeks. So I was expecting it to die anytime. However, there was
nothing to suspect on the SATA drive.

I'm not convinced you know whether the IDE drive is in fact dead.
Hopefully you did back up any important files since the drive was
"misbehaving".

If I had any important files on the SATA drive, I would find a boot
CD that will help transfer files/partitions to a CD or whatever. You
don't want to be doing new things with your hard drives if you don't
have copies of important files. Then again, you're supposed to have
copies anyway.

Good luck.












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From: "Nick" <area5pr yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: IDE fried, SATA will not boot
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