Resolved Slave HDD not seen

Hi,

I am trying to slave a Seagate 160gb HDD to copy the data to a spare partition so that I can tackle a BSOD on a dell dimension 5000. My PC is an old homemade. Running XPSP3, AMD Athlon 2400XP, Radeon 9000, Creative Soundblaster EX II. I've connected the slave using a SATA to IDE converter (using the IDE socket for the CD Rom) this has worked before but won't now. Any suggestions gratefully received.

 

Did you move the pin to Slave on the HD? Is it seen in the BIOS?

 

There are 4 pins on back of the HDD but no jumper. The jumper pins are marked manufacturer only (I think)

 

Do you have another drive you could borrow the pin/shorting bar off of?

 

This is what happens when you try to hard. You forget the obvious! Thanks, I'll try that tomorrow and let you know.

 

It appears to be a SATA hard disk, I don't know that the jumpers on a SATA HDD relate to Master/Slave on a an IDE based computer.

[Mr Bill, note that Brian is using a SATA to IDE adapter.] I haven't used such an adapter (converter).

You need to think how the adapter makes the HDD appear on the computer. Did you check if it appears in the BIOS, like Mr Bill suggested?

Remember that for IDE, there is Master/Slave or Cable Select and a Primary and Secondary IDE Controller. You might just need to change it's cable location.

IDE drives will disappear if they are fighting for the same location. You are using the Secondary IDE Controller by the sound of it (the location of the CD/DVD drive). Try reconnecting to the other connector on the cable.

I will move this thread to the Hardware forum.

Matt

 

Brian C500, it is important that you use the correct SATA connector on you Adapter I do use several of them and never had a problem.
As you know you have 1 only IDE and 2 Sata connectors, one is labeled
"To IDE" the other "From IDE" do not mix them up, plus you have to connect your little 4 pin connector to power the adapter.
If your SATA drive is a SATA 300 you may need to set the jumper on the drive to SATA 150, the old XP boards usually are not able to read SATA 300.
You should have 4 pins, often named manufacturer setting this is where you have to place your jumper over 2 pins, using same as motherboard jumpers.
hawk22

 

I've now managed to get my PC to see the HDD (after a schoolboy error, you were both right) but it says it is not formatted. I put it back into the DELL case and ran the onboard diagnostics. It failed both the read and verify tests giving the following error codes;

Read Test

Error Code 0F00:0244
msg block 67253272 uncorrectable data error

Verify Test

Error Code 0F00: 1A44
msg block 67253273 uncorrectable data error


any ideas would be very welcome. If I can just get the data off the HDD ( approx 5000 photo's from all over the world and she hadn't backed them up like I told her) I can then replace it with a new one.

 

Do you have access to a (desktop) computer with SATA connectors? Get them on that computer.

[Hope I have read the information correctly.]

 

Can you explore the drive to backup the photos.
There are many links you can google, but I don't know of any guarantied method.
Here are a few links that might help.
hawk22


http://www.datarecoverypros.com/hard-drive-recovery-freeze.html

http://www.datarecoveryfreeware.net/

http://www.suite101.com/content/hard-drive-recovery-tips-a28288

 

The problem PC has the SATA drive, my own is EIDE. Unfortunately when connected to my PC it says the SATA drive is not formatted so it can't see any data. Mounted back in its own case it goes straight to blue screen. I can't explore the drive at all. I'll have a look at the links and let you know how I get on.

Thanks

 

I've spoken to my sister in law who owns this PC. She is going down the data recovery route and then new HDD.

Thanks for all the help.



As an aside we have 7 dell PC's in work. This week 4 have suffered BSOD's. The only PC's I've so far had BSOD problems with have been DELL.......?

Thanks again for all the help and advice.