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Is thier anyway you can copy the files of a wrecked harddisk?
the board can still detect the harddisk but when it finish booting the OS the drive is not available..
i have some important file on it.

You could try Googling for a file restorer or file recover, but I doubt if the hard disk is actually damaged that you won't be able to access many of the files or even any of the files. Well if the operating system doesn't detect it and you can't access it, you won't be able to get your files off of there anyway, will you?
How'd you damage it anyway?

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Technically this is the tech support forum for the shell account but.. //edit, moved now

Have you tried another OS, say a live cd of some sort?
And what do you mean by wrecked, did it just stop working one day? Anything happen that may have caused it?

You could always try sliding it into another box, it could be that your eide controler is what is not working on your original mobo, but that's a long shot but worth a try anyways.

blinker wrote:Is thier anyway you can copy the files of a wrecked harddisk?
the board can still detect the harddisk but when it finish booting the OS the drive is not available..
i have some important file on it.

Yep; here are a few quick(es).

Lets make an assumption; its Windows; right? If not; these should apply to most other OS'
1) Get your hands on a working Windows machine. Remove the hard drive off the old machine and plug it into the working machine. When the machine boots and your OS' loads you will see two hardrives; copy the files over to the good hard drive. Then burn your files to CD. When plugging and unplugging your hardware; make sure the machines are powered down / unplugged. Hey, I have to mention it.

2) Get a spare hard drive; attache it to your machine. You can do one of the following.
1) Add the 2nd drive; boot off a Live Linux CD and copy the files over.
2) Add the new drive and make it the primary boot drive. Remove the damaged drive for safety. Install Windows; boot up and what ever (re-register, etc). Power down; attached the old drive back; and copy the files over and burn them.

The two methods listed above should work.

Regards,
Pete

Plug in another HDD install the OS on it and boot from it and then try to copy the files from the f**ked up hdd to the new on. I had this problem to I tryed to copy the files to the other hdd but windows explorer copied the files but they are were corrupt so I tried whit windows commander and halleluiah the files were ok