Putting COMPAQ hdd into non-Compaq PC, What to do ?

In article , "Opsokkebolje" wrote:
I am trying to salvage some data from a Compaq 5192 hdd . I put
the hdd into another PC, and BIOS checks the drive ok. Windows on
the
other hand does not recognize the parition. I guess its because of
the compaq
paritition on the hdd ?

Shouldn't be. Either partition table on HDD is shot, or the BIOS on
the current machine recognises or translates the HDD differently (not
all IDE controllers use the same scheme).
In former case HDD is useless unless you know exactly how the HDD was
partitioned (and I mean byte-exact) - ín that case you could salvage
it with PartitionMagic on the new machine. Be sure to try
PartitionMagic anyway.
If it's the latter, make sure controller chips for both machines are
the same. Of course, in most cases, it'll be an Intel chipset on the
motherboard anyway that controls the HDD. So this is useful only if
you used a different controller or your Compaq had a different chipset
(VIA, SiS etc.)

Grtz, O


Thanks for the input. For some reason my abit vp6 with hpt370
controller didn't let WinXp populate the partition table on the actual
drive. I tried it a couple more times and got it to work, I was able
to salvage all of the data from the hdd onto another drive .

Thanks guys.