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| 657489 | 2008-04-10 00:55:00 | Referring to this thread (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz), I still need some help to get my WinXP Pro SP1 machine to recognise an old hard drive I'm trying to extract some data from. I've tried attaching the drive to the secondary IDE as both master and slave. Neither attempts allow me to see it in either the BIOS or in Windows. This drive is formatted as FAT32, and its O/S is Win98. And when I say "not recognised" I mean it doesn't show up as actually existing. Thanks for any help. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 657490 | 2008-04-10 01:01:00 | Greg, you know the rules - keep your posts in one thread when they are on the same topic, not start new threads. :dogeye: | FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 657491 | 2008-04-10 01:16:00 | Bring it here, if youre round Mt Eden. I'll check it out |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 657492 | 2008-04-10 01:30:00 | I've tried attaching the drive to the secondary IDE as both master and slave. Neither attempts allow me to see it in either the BIOS or in Windows. Was this statement in the old thread a mistake? "I shut down and changed jumper to Secondary Master. During the reboot the drive appeared. Yay I thought! But once into Windows same invisibility. *groan*" |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 657493 | 2008-04-10 02:46:00 | Was this statement in the old thread a mistake? "I shut down and changed jumper to Secondary Master. During the reboot the drive appeared. Yay I thought! But once into Windows same invisibility. *groan*" Just a thought. It may have a 'disk manager' loaded on it (its about that era) If so then Win may not read the partition. Try booting off it as the primary drive. Linux will sometimes read/access (faulty)drives/partitions that WinXp will not. |
sroby (11519) | ||
| 657494 | 2008-04-10 02:56:00 | I doubt it'll work if you boot from it, it'll probably crash (if theres more than 1 GB in the case for instance) And because the hardware in the case, wouldnt match what was in the previous case, this hdd was in XP should read it no prob at all. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 657495 | 2008-04-10 06:50:00 | Greg, you know the rules - keep your posts in one thread when (mind you, I've never read the rules) they are on the same topic, not start new threads. :dogeye:Nope, I never seen that rule. Besides, it's simpler to keep one issue in one thread instead of bumping something. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 657496 | 2008-04-10 22:44:00 | Nope, I never seen that rule. Besides, it's simpler to keep one issue in one thread instead of bumping something. Well, it is an unwritten rule but I would have thought you had been around on the forum long enough to know about it. ;) And yes, it is simpler to keep one issue in one thread which is what I was implying in my previous post. :) Methinks we need a "bump" emoticon. :p |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 657497 | 2008-04-10 23:25:00 | Well, it is an unwritten rule but I would have thought you had been around on the forum long enough to know about it. ;) And yes, it is simpler to keep one issue in one thread which is what I was implying in my previous post. :)But that's my point too. My original thread was about connecting the drive and copying from it. My second thread was about how to get a drive recognised. Agh nevermind, we be going around in squircles! ;) Anyway, most replies are going to the other thread so I'll stick with that one. Meanwhile the drive is getting nicely frozen and I'll be trying it out again in a few hours. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 657498 | 2008-04-11 00:22:00 | But that's my point too. My original thread was about connecting the drive and copying from it. My second thread was about how to get a drive recognised. Agh nevermind, we be going around in squircles! ;) Anyway, most replies are going to the other thread so I'll stick with that one. Meanwhile the drive is getting nicely frozen and I'll be trying it out again in a few hours. If the old drive wasn't spinning up because the heads were stuck to the platter with oil, the cure was a judicious whack on the case not freezing which would make the stiction worse. I've seen some defence of the freezer idea based on the idea that it might temporarily fix broken connections or solder joints but nobody seems to know exactly why it works when it does. |
PaulD (232) | ||
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