This thread reminds me of my situation so I thought I'd post it here.
I had an older machine that suddenly quit working. I belive it was a main board problem because I got power to the machine but the only thing it did was run the fans. I couldn't get into bios and the o/s wouldn't load. So I borrowed an old machine from a friend which was running win 98 and stuck my hdd in it as a slave to try to salvage some files. My Old o/s was XP pro.
Well it worked and I was able to access my hdd. However, to make matters intriguing Because I had originallly partitioned my hdd into 3 partitiions, I couldn't access some of the files on the c drive. Well to make a long story short, I picked up a used HP Pavillion with a hdd of it's own running XP home, stuck my old hdd into it as a slave and it still works but with the same problem. So my question is this; Is there anyway to access those files on my old c drive (now the D drive) that has the other o/s on it.
Note: I cannot seem to get the machine to boot to that hdd. when I configure bios to do that and restart, tyhe thing just sits there with a blank screen. Also, I had the old o/s set up with me as the administrater and other users with their own desktops and files (like docs and pics) I can access those other files but not mine. What Up?
