Advise on slaving a h/d pls

[Shooms]

Calling all techies, calling all techies....

I had a prob where me h/d was not being read on boot up - got a new h/d but my local support would not pull over the 20gb of pers stuff to me new h/d - just the work stuff....

I've got the old h/d plus a caddy for it (I got an IBM T23 lappy)... I've put the hd in the caddy, powered down & then back up....

My pooter 'sees' the old h/d as d but when I dble click on it to access me old data to cut/paste over it says:

"D:/ is not accessible
The parameter is incorrect"

Any ideas whats up ?

CHeers in advance

PS When I try right clicking on it to explore I get the rather worrying message the the drive is not formatted - would I like to format now

I know that in order to get me work stuff of it they had to use a special proggy - any one know what this is ?

[ianj]

It sounds like the file allocation table is screwed up. Let Windows run a check on the disk...

Start -> Run -> cmd

Then in the command window...

chkdsk d:\

That will run a check over the drive and it's status. Executed like that it will report any errors it finds.

See what it reports and if you want it to fix anything it finds then run it again but this time with the /f switch.

chkdsk d:\ /f

I've had to run this a few times on the same drive before it became readable so if it isn't sucessful with the first wave of fixing fix try it again.

[Myk]

You can also trying booting the system using Partition Magic 8's floppy bootables then run the correct errors option from within it. I've uploaded them here for ya :

http://www.euro-computers.com/PM/pm80_disk_1.exe

and here :

http://www.euro-computers.com/PM/pm80_disk_2.exe

they just need decompressing onto 2 floppies and off ya go