Friend’s harddrive forcing restart.?
What do you guys think could cause this and what can I try to fix it? I’m helping out a friend and right now his harddrive (when put into my pc cause his nolonger works) comes up with the safe mode or normal windows options in DOS. Anything I choose causes the computer to reboot. He wants me to save the files on the harddrive so anybody know any good freeware harddrive recovery programs or something?
I took out my harddrive and am just using his as primary. i’ll try doing slave if it can.
You will never be able to successfully boot the OS of his hard drive on your PC because each computer has a different and unique hardware ID. His OS will keep on looking for his computer’s ID.
Just connect it as a slave and boot from your original hard drive then copy his data to your hard drive. Once you have copied his files, check his hard drive for errors. This can be done under Tools tab of the Drive Properties.
After checking for errors, you can put his hard drive back to his computer and reinstall the operating system. You may also want to reformat the drive prior to the re-installation so you can start clean.
Meanwhile, it is also a good practice to have 2 separate partitions on a hard drive: one for the operating system and programs and the other for data. This way, if something goes wrong with the operating system and you need to reformat, your data will not be affected.
Are you setting his hardrive as a slave before putting it in your computer
EDIT…..how are you putting the hardrive in your computer, you left that part out. All you have to do is set it as slave then move the files on to your computer then put the files on a flashdrive or cd.
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You will never be able to successfully boot the OS of his hard drive on your PC because each computer has a different and unique hardware ID. His OS will keep on looking for his computer’s ID.
Just connect it as a slave and boot from your original hard drive then copy his data to your hard drive. Once you have copied his files, check his hard drive for errors. This can be done under Tools tab of the Drive Properties.
After checking for errors, you can put his hard drive back to his computer and reinstall the operating system. You may also want to reformat the drive prior to the re-installation so you can start clean.
Meanwhile, it is also a good practice to have 2 separate partitions on a hard drive: one for the operating system and programs and the other for data. This way, if something goes wrong with the operating system and you need to reformat, your data will not be affected.
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