Ok, so I had an old computer running XP and I decided to upgrade it. I upgraded everything (motherboard, cpu, ram) and bought myself a Raptor hard drive. I installed windows vista on it and now I wanted to copy files from my old hard drives onto my raptor. My old hard drives are IDE. I plugged it in and set it to slave. It recognized it as a D drive and told me I had to format it in order to use it. I would assume that this format would erase everything on it?
I didn't format the drive and I decided I would just boot directly from my drive and copy the files onto a flash drive. So I unplug my raptor and set my samsung to master. It starts to boot up and then once it gets to the windows screen where the bar moves it goes to a blue screen and reboots. It repeats this over and over. I tried booting in safe mode and nothing will work. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on what to do? I really need some files from that hard drive.
I am using a Gigabyte ga-965p-ds3/s3 motherboard.
I didn't format the drive and I decided I would just boot directly from my drive and copy the files onto a flash drive. So I unplug my raptor and set my samsung to master. It starts to boot up and then once it gets to the windows screen where the bar moves it goes to a blue screen and reboots. It repeats this over and over. I tried booting in safe mode and nothing will work. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on what to do? I really need some files from that hard drive.
I am using a Gigabyte ga-965p-ds3/s3 motherboard.