Bob,

A bang and a frozen screen does not immediately constitute a dead HDD in my
mind, but if you are convinced that the primary HDD is dead, I won't debate
it with you.

As long as that second drive has not been damaged, you should have no
problem installing it in your computer and seeing the data. My only concern
would be - what operating system is on your computer and what is the "file
structure" on your granddaughter's second HDD?

For example, you will not be able to see the information that is on a drive
that has been formatted in NTFS if your operating system is Windows 98 or
ME. But you could install the drive on any computer with XP or Windows 2000
system and be able see the files on a FAT or NTFS partion without any
problem. Of course, if you formatted the second HDD on granddaughter's
computer in FAT32, then you will have no problem seeing with any of the
aforementioned operating systems.

Hope This Helps...John


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From: "bobwarasila" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 8:25 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Hard drive crash?


> My grand daughter has a Dell Optiplex G110 that I tuned up for her last
year with extra RAM and a 2nd HD.  The OS (XP Pro)resides on the C drive and
I told her to use the F drive (2nd HD) to save everything on.  Today her
father was doing some renovation work in the room below her and was driving
nails while she was doing HW.  She said she felt one heavy bang and her
computer froze.  When we try to reboot we get a message that says: Previous
attempt at boot failed at checkpoint (Vopn), call Dell Tech Support.  This
computer is about 6 years old so I doubt if Dell will give me much help.  I
suspect the C-drive crashed and is trash.   Can I salvage what ever is on
the F drive if I put it my computer which has an available IDE connection?
>
> Bob Warasila
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