Steve M said:True. Definately worth a shot.
What do you guys think about xfering the files through DOS from the slave back to the master. He will probably get truncated file names but at least he will have his data. Just lookin for a second opinion and another opinion!
i'm thinking that would be a long tut to write... unless you can google for the step by step
other than that it just may work...
i was also thinking the same thing... win9x boot disk, and xcopy, but for that i would put the 6gig hd he was talking about as the master... reformating it and then just copy all files over to that one drive, slave the 6G drive to the original P4 new master and it may work, then again if there is a security setting or durring the reinstall windows "locked" that file, you may get it transfered but still be unable to open it in the OS...
i'm thinking it's time for big guns and data recovery... just what i'm thinking