Hard Drive Probs

vinylmusic

My hard drive is on the blink
its a 20gb HD running on XP
I managed to salvage a 40GB HD from another computer and set it up successfully as a slave inorder to run Paragon Drive Copy

I know it may not come highly recommended but I've used Paragon DC to clone a HD before and it seems to be the easiest way to set up an exact copy of a HD and less hassle than doing a complete reinstall .

I decided to format the 40gb Slave drive first so that it would be clean

I set it as NTFS the same as my ond drive and let it run

I dont know what has happened but now it comes up as an invalid drive in Paragon and when I click on properties for that drive it shows as being 100% full.

I'm getting desperate because my current C drive has failed already on two occasions and could possibly pack up any moment

Any help would be gratefully appreciated

A_Nice_Englishman

How about setrting up your faulty HD as a slave in a working PC and copying your data off?

Then get a new HD, install Windows and your software and copy your data back on.

In the future, backup your data regularly in case you have another HD failure.

vinylmusic

A_Nice_Englishman wrote:

How about setrting up your faulty HD as a slave in a working PC and copying your data off?

Then get a new HD, install Windows and your software and copy your data back on.

In the future, backup your data regularly in case you have another HD failure.

Thanks but thats eaiser said than done. I dont have anotherr working computer with XP on it

I have an external 250GB hard drive for backup and I was using paragon DC to make exact copy regularly.

I now need to copy to the 40gb disc from either the existing 20GB C drive or from the external drive

I cant boot from the external drive so I really need to get everything onto the slave asap

A new format wont work on the slave for some reason
Is still shows as being 100% full

What I need is to get it freed up and properly formatted but I cant think how

A_Nice_Englishman

Ah I see. I'm not familiar with Paragon I'm afraid.

Perhaps someone else can advise you better?