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Old IDE Drives
I have a couple of old IDE hard drives and would like to see what is on
them. Anyone able to tell me what to use to read them? I have an external device I just slip a SATA HD into and I can read and transfer files with no problem and no worrying about booting. This one I can see the HD and it is in an upright position. Just slips in a HD and read it. The old HDs have W98 and XP but still would like to check them out before destroying or formatting. Would like it to be easy to insert and remove hard drives. -- Lee (in Florida)US Army Retired Georgie Boy Cruise Master Logitech VidCam & Skype lee.g.bray |
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On 9/3/2010 8:45 AM, Lee wrote:
I have a couple of old IDE hard drives and would like to see what is on them. Anyone able to tell me what to use to read them? I have an external device I just slip a SATA HD into and I can read and transfer files with no problem and no worrying about booting. This one I can see the HD and it is in an upright position. Just slips in a HD and read it. The old HDs have W98 and XP but still would like to check them out before destroying or formatting. Would like it to be easy to insert and remove hard drives. Lee, You can still get either an external USB case for IDE drives or a naked USB-IDE cable and power supply to read the old hard drives... Ben Myers |
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Hi Ben
Why is it that I knew you would be there to help? (grin) Glad to see you are still here offering good and consistent advice. My Gateway is still running and doing a great job. I just had some old IDE drives and wanted to see what was on them before doing something with them as the wife is in a cleaning spree. I am sure you understand that. Again Thanks for your assistance. Ben Myers wrote: USB-IDE cable and power supply -- Lee (in Florida)US Army Retired Georgie Boy Cruise Master Logitech VidCam & Skype lee.g.bray |
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"Lee" wrote in message ... Hi Ben Why is it that I knew you would be there to help? (grin) Glad to see you are still here offering good and consistent advice. My Gateway is still running and doing a great job. I just had some old IDE drives and wanted to see what was on them before doing something with them as the wife is in a cleaning spree. I am sure you understand that. Again Thanks for your assistance. Ben Myers wrote: USB-IDE cable and power supply -- Lee (in Florida)US Army Retired Georgie Boy Cruise Master Logitech VidCam & Skype lee.g.bray Also, if your motherboard supports IDE, you can hook it up internally temporarily just to peruse or copy the contents. Then format it and stick it on a shelf, just in case (must be why I have 3 or 4 hanging around :-) ). -- SC Tom -There's no such thing as TMI when asking for tech support. |
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Hi Tom
I can put it in my Gateway w/Vista but then it tries to boot also and my computer will only handle 4 gigs of memory and when it is in there it tells me there is insufficient memory for it to continue as it (IDE) tries to boot up with XP also. Needless to say I have limited knowledge for computing and age is catching up also! (grin) I am one of those who hate to throw something out if it still works even if I am not using it. I would not want anyone to see all the stuff I have stored. SC Tom wrote: Also, if your motherboard supports IDE, you can hook it up internally temporarily just to peruse or copy the contents. Then format it and stick it on a shelf, just in case (must be why I have 3 or 4 hanging around :-) ). -- Lee (in Florida)US Army Retired Georgie Boy Cruise Master Logitech VidCam & Skype lee.g.bray |
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You'd have to go into BIOS and change the primary boot drive to your current
drive. Then it should boot OK and the IDE will be a slave. Is your current boot drive also IDE, or is it SATA? If it's an IDE, then you can check your jumpers to make sure the drives are set to CS (Cable Select), then put the current dive on the ribbon connector farthest from the motherboard and the secondary drive on the other one. -- SC Tom -There's no such thing as TMI when asking for tech support. "Lee" wrote in message ... Hi Tom I can put it in my Gateway w/Vista but then it tries to boot also and my computer will only handle 4 gigs of memory and when it is in there it tells me there is insufficient memory for it to continue as it (IDE) tries to boot up with XP also. Needless to say I have limited knowledge for computing and age is catching up also! (grin) I am one of those who hate to throw something out if it still works even if I am not using it. I would not want anyone to see all the stuff I have stored. SC Tom wrote: Also, if your motherboard supports IDE, you can hook it up internally temporarily just to peruse or copy the contents. Then format it and stick it on a shelf, just in case (must be why I have 3 or 4 hanging around :-) ). -- Lee (in Florida)US Army Retired Georgie Boy Cruise Master Logitech VidCam & Skype lee.g.bray |
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Hi Tom, no the primary (boot)drive is SATA and drives I was talking
about are IDE. SC Tom wrote: You'd have to go into BIOS and change the primary boot drive to your current drive. Then it should boot OK and the IDE will be a slave. Is your current boot drive also IDE, or is it SATA? If it's an IDE, then you can check your jumpers to make sure the drives are set to CS (Cable Select), then put the current dive on the ribbon connector farthest from the motherboard and the secondary drive on the other one. -- Lee (in Florida)US Army Retired Georgie Boy Cruise Master Logitech VidCam & Skype lee.g.bray |
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I know. I was just asking about your already-installed drives. You've
answered that, so now the thing to do to add the old IDE drive(s) to your current setup is to hook it (them) up to an IDE connector, boot into BIOS, then make sure under 'Boot Devices', 'Hard Drives' (or some similar wording) that your SATA drive is listed first in the list of hard drives. Then it should boot to your current operating system and not to the Win98 or XP drive(s). Then you can take off what you want from them, then format them and use them for backups, grandkids' pictures, etc. It's OK to have mixed platform drives installed (I do on my PC), but if there is more than one hard drive, then you have to tell the PC which one is the boot drive. -- SC Tom "Lee" wrote in message ... Hi Tom, no the primary (boot)drive is SATA and drives I was talking about are IDE. SC Tom wrote: You'd have to go into BIOS and change the primary boot drive to your current drive. Then it should boot OK and the IDE will be a slave. Is your current boot drive also IDE, or is it SATA? If it's an IDE, then you can check your jumpers to make sure the drives are set to CS (Cable Select), then put the current dive on the ribbon connector farthest from the motherboard and the secondary drive on the other one. -- Lee (in Florida)US Army Retired Georgie Boy Cruise Master Logitech VidCam & Skype lee.g.bray |
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*-* On Fri, 03 Sep 2010, at 08:45:07 -0400,
*-* In Article , *-* Lee wrote *-* About Old IDE Drives I have a couple of old IDE hard drives and would like to see what is on them. Anyone able to tell me what to use to read them? I have an external device I just slip a SATA HD into and I can read and transfer files with no problem and no worrying about booting. This one I can see the HD and it is in an upright position. Just slips in a HD and read it. I have a similar device (USB) that can handle both SATA and IDE drives in both 3 1/2" and 2 1/2" sizes. http://www.amazon.com/SATA-UNIVERSAL-DRIVE-DOCKING-STATION/dp/B002UAR8JY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=pc&qid=1283674047&sr=1-1 (or http://preview.tinyurl.com/2wtwtsu) The old HDs have W98 and XP but still would like to check them out before destroying or formatting. Would like it to be easy to insert and remove hard drives. Like yours, SATA drives plug into mine in an upright position. IDE drives, however, connect externally via cables which are supplied with the device. It's not ideal if you want it for long-term use, but for temporary use, such as you want, it might be an acceptable option. If you're interested, the manual can be downloaded from http://www.startech.com/Data/ProductManuals/unidock2u.pdf It's about a 1.5 MB .pdf file. Ken Whiton -- FIDO: 1:132/152 InterNet: L (remove the obvious to reply) |
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