Xantom
02-04-10, 05:16 PM
I have a computer with 2 drives(IDE), Maxtor 60GB(Master) and Maxtor 120GB(Slave). XP home 32 bit installed and would no longer boot. The Windows boot screen would come up and then it would go into disk analysis mode. Soon the screen would fill with secotor(...) unreadable errors, one after another.
I pulled both drives and attempted to use a rosewill IDE converter to USB cable to attempt to remove his data. I have used this on many 2.5 and 3.5 drives successfully. My first attempt was on a 7 64bit machine, I can see my PC recognize both but when I look in Disk Management I can see them but I get a red mark where the drive is listed saying the drive is not initialized. I attempt to initialize, I was really unsure what this would do, but that does not work, saying the device is not ready. This true for both drives.
My second attempt was to connect to an XP machine first via USB, that PC would recognize them and say the device is ready to use, but I cannot view either drive in My Computer or in Disk Management. I then connected both drives via IDE cable internally, the drive containing the OS of that machine is connected via SATA. The computer will not boot, saying it cannot find a boot device. I scanned the bios to find settings to adjust but could not see anything that would help. However I noticed that the first boot HDD, was the Maxtor drive that I had just connected and not the SATA Seagate that contains that machines OS. I could not find any settings relative to the SATA drive or any way to adjust the boot sequence to boot from that drive. I also tried booting the machine and then connecting the drives power and IDE connections, no luck:)
I am attempting to get some pictures off of these drives and that's all. Any suggestions are appreciated.
I pulled both drives and attempted to use a rosewill IDE converter to USB cable to attempt to remove his data. I have used this on many 2.5 and 3.5 drives successfully. My first attempt was on a 7 64bit machine, I can see my PC recognize both but when I look in Disk Management I can see them but I get a red mark where the drive is listed saying the drive is not initialized. I attempt to initialize, I was really unsure what this would do, but that does not work, saying the device is not ready. This true for both drives.
My second attempt was to connect to an XP machine first via USB, that PC would recognize them and say the device is ready to use, but I cannot view either drive in My Computer or in Disk Management. I then connected both drives via IDE cable internally, the drive containing the OS of that machine is connected via SATA. The computer will not boot, saying it cannot find a boot device. I scanned the bios to find settings to adjust but could not see anything that would help. However I noticed that the first boot HDD, was the Maxtor drive that I had just connected and not the SATA Seagate that contains that machines OS. I could not find any settings relative to the SATA drive or any way to adjust the boot sequence to boot from that drive. I also tried booting the machine and then connecting the drives power and IDE connections, no luck:)
I am attempting to get some pictures off of these drives and that's all. Any suggestions are appreciated.