[NTLUG:Discuss] Crash recovery

[Robert Pearson]

On 8/5/09, Fred <fredstevens at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>  One of my computers' mobo blew a couple days ago,
>  the one with all my important data, of course. I would
>  like to have the boot drive from that system boot up
>  on the other computer but I guess there is way
>  too much hardware difference. It was on a P4/2.4GHz
>  mobo, the other box is an Athlon something. When I try,
>  the boot process stops when it waits for the arrival of the
>  hdd drive (It's a long story, yes, I put the drive into the
>  IDE1, slave slot). Anyway, it doesn't boot in the AMD box.
>
>  I can mount it as a second drive and the data seems to be
>  all there. I need to be able to not just access the data but to
>  run the programs. How do I do that? ... other than getting an
>  exact replacement mobo/cpu ....
>
>  Fred
>

Do you get any error messages at all?

Do you have GRUG installed for booting?
For GRUB to work it has to find the boot file on the correct partition.

If not, how is your BIOS configured for booting?
On my machines I can set the boot drive in the BIOS.
Always works for IDE drives. Tricky to get to work with SATA drives.