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Subject:	Re: Unable to access data on hard drive
From:	"Daniel G. Smith" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Sun, 4 Jul 1999 13:19:16 -0400
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If you had your second drive formatted with EZ-Drive originally, but not
>your new drive, then you need to install EZ-Drive onto your new drive to
>read the second drive, since the format EZ-Drive uses is not a standard
>format, and EZ-Drive needs to load at boot to read it.
>>>>>>>Thanks for taking the time to think about my problem.
Unfortunately, it's just the opposite- I installed the new drive with EZ Drive and it Can see the data - but there is no way using EZ Drive to recover the data. The data is unseen for some reason in windows or when i boot up to a dos prompt.


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On 7/3/99, at 1:29 PM, Matthew Ballard wrote:

>>Unable to access data on hard drive
>>
>>I'll try to give the short version of my problem:
>>You really may want to draw this out to see it.
>>
>>Previously, I had 2 hard drives- drive one was C:, drive 2 partitioned
>>into D: and E:.Bought a new hard drive- it is the master on the
>>primary idea cable partitioned as the new C: drive and F: drive
>>(it chose F:) with the old D: and E: partitioned hard drive as the
>>slave. The old C: drive is now the D: drive on the secondary IDE
>>cable as the master,  with the cd-rom as the slave- both of those are
>>working fine. The problem is the old D: / E: drive that is now the
>>slave on the primary IDEA drive - I can't access the data!
>>
>>EZDrive program showed the directory of the hard drive so I
>>abandoned the reformatting hoping to access the data somehow.
>
>If you had your second drive formatted with EZ-Drive originally, but not
>your new drive, then you need to install EZ-Drive onto your new drive to
>read the second drive, since the format EZ-Drive uses is not a standard
>format, and EZ-Drive needs to load at boot to read it.
>Matthew Ballard
>Computer Consultant
>
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