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Hard Disk not getting detected

Christinal — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 11:17:02 +0000

My hard-disk is not getting detected.. Day before it was, I just removed the ram & from that moment itself, everything’s stopped working.!! Mine is a 915gm motherboard with IDE Hard-disk connection.. When I tried it connect with some other IDE cable it did not take, and when I checked it with a Sata connection, hard-disk kinda worked.. What could be the problem.. How can I temporarily solve the problem?? Has my hard-disk crashed completely, even though it was working just a day before Plzz help

How do I duplicate or clone a dying SATA drive?

ITKE — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:16:47 +0000

If a sata drive is dying what is the best method to duplicate or clone it without risking the data? Is this the same for ide or scsi drives? If not please list the best methods for these as well across any platform.

How can I use fibre channel hard disk in SATA or IDE port

Chetanm — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:26:44 +0000

how can I use fibler channle hard disk in sata or IDE port

Nortel GSM O&M

Pcarpo100 — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:09:09 +0000

How to replace a faulty BSC2g Chain-A or Chain-B’s MMU-IDE hard disk? What supportive tools are required before executing the replacement?

Looking for NAS solution

ITKE — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:08:34 +0000

I have a number of IDE drives (between 250GB – 500GB) that I have out
grown over the years. I was curious whether anyone is aware of a NAS
(100/GB Int) device or similar chasis / enclosure (USB/Firewire) that
accepts IDE drives and is affordable? I would prefer to have all
three connections. I need something capable of supporting at least 3
drives and with a controller that supports RAID.

I would also be interested in a similar device that supports SATA (If
something exists that supports both that would be best). The SATA
enclosure I would require higher drive capacity support (1TB per
drive).

IDE – SATA drive combo

Britinga — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:34:37 +0000

I followed the discussion about putting IDE drives into a system with SATA drives. I’ve done this successfully, but on one machine (Win XP Pro), the system constantly reboots if an IDE drive is attached to the cable marked ‘slave’. I removed the jumper according the instructions on the drive. Is there a fix for this?
Thanks

Install IDE drive as slave on a Vista Dual Core Processor w/SATA primary drive

Brenger — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:54:37 +0000

First: Got a new Vista machine (pentium Dual Core Processor) w/SATA hard drive. Want to install a 5 year old 40 gig Western Digital IDE drive as a slave for storage. The motherboard has what looks like a connection for an IDE drive. The connection on the board is blue to match the blue end of the IDE 80 wire ribbon cable. Therefore I’m making an assumption. Someone at Best Buy said if I installed a drive that old it could blow up my new computer. Doesn’t sound right, but thought I’d check it out first. I haven’t messed with pc hardware for about 5 years and everything has changed. I’m also assuming a ribbon cable will work, and I don’t need to buy one of those new round ones.

Second: how do I set the jumpers. The SATA has 4 sets of 2. Definely not the same as the 5 sets of 2 on the IDE. Do I need to set SATA as master and IDE as slave?

Any tips?

USB SATA/IDE adapter

HulkIT — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:26:02 +0000

I can not get into the files from the old sata drive? How can i get into the files with out placing the old hdd back into the case

How can I get XP to assign a Letter to an additional IDE drive installed as slave

Nettie01 — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:07:51 +0000

How can I get XP to assign a Letter to an additional IDE drive installed as salve, so I can access it? XP installed and it appears as hard drive in Device Manager hardware.