| transferring data between hard-drives
I lost data (family photos of my 1 year old daughter) and was unable to recover with 'undelete' software. Fortunately I had recently cloned everything onto a new and larger hard-drive. And fortunately, all the lost data is on the older hard-drive still.
I am running windows xp (s2).
My older hard-drive is 20 gigs (partitioned 5 gigs for operating system, programs etc. & aprox 15 gigs for data - which I am after recovering)
My new hard-drive is partitioned too (39 gigs for operating system & 110 gigs for data)
So they are similar except that one is bigger and the cloning kept the partition ratio. They have the same operating system.
My problem:
When I hook up the older hard-drive (as a second hard-drive) and tried to boot up, it asked me to insert a 'boot disk'.
My floppy doesn't work and I don't have a boot disk.
Q1. Do I need a boot disk?
Q2. Can I create a CD boot disk?
Q3. The fact that there will be 2 operating systems when I do get both hard-drives up, will this cause a conflict?
Q4. If so, how do I avoid the conflict?
Basically, I just want to hook up the old hard-drive, transfer the lost data, then unhook the old hard-drive and leave it as a back-up.
Can any body shed some light? Thank you very much.
Kindest regards, Illya
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