"Unable to load operating system"
My 4-5 y/o desktop decided to come up with the message "unable to load operating system" the other day.
It was running Windows XP from an 80GB hdd that was almost full.
Any idea's of a cure for it without losing the data that I obviously hadn't bothered to back up?
Currently using my netbook at the moment, and I've got a new 250gb hdd for the desktop that I'm installing.
Is there a way that I can run the 250gb as the master drive but still be able to access the old 80gb drive to copy all the data off?
I put both drives inside the PC, and connected the new one up as the master and the old one as the slave, but when I go in to the bios, it won't find the new master drive, and only shows me the old drive still as the master even though it was connected to the slave part of the cable.
Currently unplugged the old 80gb drive, and it then found the new drive so I'm installing XP again on the new drive, then what do I need to do to access the old one ?.
Is it as simple as just plugging it back in, and then it "should" appear on my computer as another drive, or is it more complicated ?.
Cheers for any help.
NH.