Drive now showing in windows?

Frost · 18 Sep 2006 at 14:19

Hi there.

I've got a laptop HD which i've connected to my pc with a laptop > IDE cable converter, i've got it plugged into my secondary IDE channel, in the BIOS is can see the drive, but for some reason is reads it as a secondary slave rather than primary slave on the 2nd channel? dont know if thats normal...

When windows boots the little poppup bubble on the taskbar shows saying its detected it, yet the drive isnt visible on my computer or on the disk management window. I really need to access this drive, it has important work files and the laptop it was in has a duff bios

Anyone have an idea as to what might be wrong?

Cheers.

wizardmaxx · 18 Sep 2006 at 14:48

You could try a 2.5in hard drive case ide to usb 2.0. That may help if the info is really important.

R2eads it as a secondary slave rather than primary slave on the 2nd channel? dont know if thats normal" - sound fine to me if it is connected on the secondary ide channel.

Try this - right click on my computer, click properties, click hardware tab, click device manager, click action - scan for hardware changes. Then go check for your hard drive in disk management again.

Frost · 18 Sep 2006 at 14:57

thanks for the response.

I gave that a go but it didnt seem to work.
the drive is actually viewable on device manager, but still isnt showing up on disk management or my computer

I suppose i could try get one of those usb hard drive housing things though, didnt think of that

wizardmaxx · 18 Sep 2006 at 15:00

See if you can change the jumper setting on the hdd to master and try it on its own on the secondary channel.

Frost · 18 Sep 2006 at 15:19

Just gave that a go and still no joy, I'll get a drive enclosure and hope that works, thanks for the help wizard

UKDTweak · 18 Sep 2006 at 15:25

Check that it is not getting a conflicting drive letter, if you have any usb drives etc.... look in the event manager.

Frost · 18 Sep 2006 at 15:28

yeah, can't see anything in the event viewer regarding the drive.
Its a strange one this

deadeyedic30 · 20 Sep 2006 at 11:24

If its on the second ide channel it will be either Secondary Master or Secondary Slave. What else is on the cable ? If there is something else on the Second ide channel remove it so it only has the laptop and see what happens ?