Help me Please! :(

[smarties_014]

Hi! My computer's motherboard broke recently so i bought a new board. Now I want to back up all of my files from my Hard drive before i format it for my new board. My hard drive is a 300gb seagate SATA. I tried connecting it to another computer but unfortunately it doesent show in the computer's "my computer". Now i tried to use the harddrive's cd software that came along with it. I think it was seagate discwizard. Anyways the program won't let me add the harddrive unless i format it and lose all of my files Please help me!! I need to back all these files up. Also i tried setting it up as slave but it seems that u can;t set SATA harddrives as slaves without formatting it. Please help me.

 

[NayNay1991x]

hello there, connect the HDD again and right click MY Computer then select Manage, after that a window will come up, and in the left hand pane select Disk Management, does it say Unallocated anywhere ?

 

[smarties_014]

uhhh. The computer with my drive is like very far away from me but can u tell me what to do if it said un allocated?? or tell me what to do if it;s not. i didint expect an answer this fast! WOW. I love this forum.

 

[NayNay1991x]

does this drive appear in Device Manager ?

 

[smarties_014]

Yes it does but not in my computer

 

[NayNay1991x]

hmmm.... the best thing i can think of is to just format the drive but you want to back-up some of your files..

 

[smarties_014]

yes exactly! My problem is backing up the files. Not the harddrive not showing in the "my computer" I just need the files. I tired that power desk thing it doe'snt do it either.

 

[NayNay1991x]

is the HDD set to Master or Slave ?

 

[smarties_014]

That's a problem. MY HD is sata. It don't have jumpers. TO set it as a slave i need to format it. but there's gotta be another way.

 

[NayNay1991x]

have look on this site: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/...omatically-back-up-your-hard-drive-147855.php