OK - last week I came home and fired up my PC - nothing - no fans, no clicks..no sparks...nada.
Figured it was a power suppy issue - picked up a new power supply. Put it in.
I pulled all cards and drives off the mobo and checked that out...
processesor fan turned on and ran for 1.5 seconds...then shut down.
Tried various configs to see if some hardware / memeory was causing the shutdown. Finally ended up with mobo/ processor only... same thing. Shut down after 1.5 seconds.
Well I had been wanting to upgrade, so I used this roadblock as an excuse to pull the trigger.
Orders on the way - AMD64 3200 / Gigabye GA k8NS pro mobo.
So Now, while waiting..I decide I need to recover some info off my hard drive so I can do a fresh install.
(I will actually have 4 HDs in new pc, on 1 - 40gB for os, 1 40 gb for my work crap/documents, 2 - 80 gb for audio. I was thinking of doing these in array or striping, but I need the space, not speed-least right now.)
Anyway - I pulled my HD from the pc thats down and put it as a slave in another pc here for data recovery...figured it'd recognize it as another disk and i could just pull the files from old disk to the one that's in the "surrogate" pc.
Well, It recognizis the files..least I see the icons/directories..but when I try to open them, I get "drive is not accesible, and the old
damaged or corrupted message.
The HD that im trying to get the data from came from an AMD athelon PC and Is now sitting in a P4 pc...
Whne the p4 boots up..it say i need to run chkdisk on it....I tried doing that, but I saw "deleting orphan files"....what the hell is that?
I hope that's not my data getting tossed. Anyway - If anyone has any ideas I would appreciate it.
I am also planning on trying the same thing with the AMD setup once I get that all put together and up and running - maybe see if it will recognize the drive/files...
ugh...I have all my photshop skins / tons of reference photos scans / 3-views on this disk....lol not to mention legit work stuff.
Thanks in advance,
Waffle