How do you insert a slave drive, and how do you extract the files off of it?  I need to get some music off of a crashed drive.
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Data can be removed from a bad drive and we do it all the time.  Make sure your jumpers are setup correctly.\n\nCS  Cable Select\nMS  Master\nSL  Slave\n\nThen there is sometimes a jumper for Master with Slave Present, make sure JUMPERS are right.  Boot into BIOS and select detect drives, or just set them for Auto both will work.  If the drive is pooched, we can get your data for you.  Contact info below
643226
Just straighten out a paper clip and insert it into the emergency release on the front fo the unit...everyone has one. You will have to press hard but it will pop the drive open.
664245
Sounds like your hard drive is toast. Usually this kind of thing means there are bad sectors. I have heard there are some programs that can pull the undamaged data from the drive. Try searching Yahoo or Google. I am sure there are many sights in cyberworld with downloadable programs to recover lost data.
82646
I would suggest you right click on my computer and go to manage and then that will bring up a console and you go to disk management and you should be able to see what it says about your external drive ie if its un allocated or w/e. Post back with that info, btw did this hard drive work correctly in your other computer before it broke down or did it break down because the hard drive broke down or what ?
386130
The only viable option besides copying to the hard drive is the Disc Stakka from Imation. See more info here: http://www.imation.com.au/products/disc_stakka/index.htm\nhttp://www.imation.com/products/disc_stakka/index.html\n\nAdded the U.S. link. My mistake.
618213
Try restarting your computer. If the drive is removable, try taking it out and putting it in. Try going to device manager and making sure there are drivers installed for it. You can do this by going to start, right click on my computer, click properties, click hardware tab, then click the device manager button. Look for anything with an ! or ? icon. If there is one on the CD/DVD drive then it's a driver problem, easily fixed. I'd tell you where to get the driver if I knew the model of your computer.\n\nAnd if none of these work, it may be the drive fried or got disconnected from the board.
318621
Yeah what that dude said. Connect them with firewire. If you hold down T on one of them when booting up it will boot as a hard drive, and appear as a drive on the other computer so you can copy stuff off it that way.
535651
you want to sacrifice music for space??? just encode them all to Ogg Vorbis files (vorbis.com) at 64 KBps. That should give you like a gigabyte back. without giving music to the void in Heaven
648939
Install them into your computer as slave drives and access them thru my computer.  Should be able to cut/copy and paste.  If you do not want to open the computer purchase an ide to usb cable or an external enclosure.  Simply make all of the connections and then do the same as an internal hard drive.  WinXP should automatically find  the drives and install the necesary drivers.  I have done it on several old 5.25" hard drives.  I use them as backups, nothing like extending the life of 7 yr old tech.\n\nFirst link ide to usb cables (I personally have the Bytecc)\nSecond link external enclosures\n\nHope this helps.
499200
use a firewire to move them quikly or if you want to do it for a little cheaper you can move the hard drive to the other computer and make it better unless you want both, then use a flash drive to move it in between computers, will take a while, but it is simple to drap the music files from the computer to the flash drive, then the flash drive to the other computer
492214
I couldn't find any English assistance when I did a search on the file in Google, and the file is not on my PC. What is your F:&#92; drive though.  maybe that will give us some insight.
585685
how many have you made?  Most drives will eventually wear out and stop working.  Maybe your drive isn't working anymore, or maybe its not connected right, or maybe you just need to reinstall the drivers.
459274
Generally the .cab files are pretty large.  You would probably have a hard time finding them.  Does the disc you are installing from look damage?  Maybe you can try and repair it if so.  You could also try installing on a different computer.  Then you can copy over the needed files.  I have had that work in the past.\n\nIs this on a floppy disk?  If so, you can try and repair the disk.  Just do a scandisk on the disk itself.  If it is a CD, then try and get a repair kit.
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you could install it as a slave drive and transfer files and install an os, then either switch the control for master/slave (varies by computer) or just switch the cables with the old hd. (you may have to switch places too, some of those cables are short and inflexible)
73360
With my knowledge, I would say that it's okay to move all your downloaded videos to the slave. You can always open it from the slave so it should be fine. HOWEVER! I DO NOT recommend installing software on the slave because I've had many people complain that programs give them errors that they cant find themselves because they refer to drive C: instead of drive D:. however opening, saving, and working with files on the slave is fine. It's like working with data from a thumb drive or CD or external hard drive.
488432
That is extremely bad news, a few years ago it would be the worst. I'm afraid what you'll have to do is reformat the drive. \n\nFortunately all is not lost as there are two pieces of software that will recover the data from the drive after this has taken place.\n\nGetDataBack and Ontrack Easy Recovery - I've used GetDataBack before in the same situation and found it works brilliantly.\n\nThe best of luck, and next time remember to back up to DVD or CD.
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If nothing can read it you would have to use an advanced program that uses bit stream copying to get the information back. Through any normal means the hard drive is dead and all information is lost. If it is imparative that you get the information off of it take it to a computer repair shop and ask them to retrieve whatever data they can. If it is not important to save the data that was on there you will need to buy a new drive and set up your computer again. Hope this helps.