Given an installation of Windows XP Home to look at which wouldn’t boot at all. Put the HDD as slave to my Master in my machine to see if file structure OK etc and find that my PC now runs like treacle , HDD light on most of the time.XP cannot see contents of slave HDD and locks up explorer trying to see files. Scandisk won’t run on this drive and ChkDsk reports unrecoverable errors.
Bad news so far.
HOWEVER if I boot from a win98 boot disc I can not only see the file and directory structure on the troubled disc I can copy off any required files onto the master HDD. Both drives are FAT32.
Anyone any thoughts on what might be happening here? as I would like to restore the drive if possible to full working order without a reinstall of XP.
Drive also tests out virus free
John