Hi. I've spent most of the morning trying to get data off my old hard drives. I bought a cheap SATA/IDE to USB kit off the auction site (could be the problem) but if I'd have bought a caddy it would be the same sort of setup - so I'll continue.
I've managed to get the drive to connect in OS X. I was looking through the files and everything was ship-shape - started to transfer it over to my new drive and it un-mounted in that lovely way that it does. Did that about two more times and I'm not sure why.
Stuck Vista on Boot-Camp and thought I'd have more luck with that, given that Windows would be more used to dealing with all types of drives - but it's not even recognising it. I'm getting the noise when you plug a USB device in and the driver for 'USB MASS Storage Device' is installing fine - but nothing there.
Checked Computer Management as well, nothing there.
As I've posted this in the Mac forum, I'd be happier to make it work with OS X, especially given the drive I'm transferring it onto is in Journal OS X (saves me installing MacDrive on Windows) - anyone got any ideas?
As I've said, it has picked it up a few times, just having trouble with the un-mouting of itself.
Knowing my luck I'll eventually get it working to find out the hard drive has corrupted itself with this mornings efforts.
Cheers.
Edit
Okay, so I've somehow managed to get it picked up in Vista. It's in two partitions but in the explorer both are empty. So I went into the Computer Management section and both partitions are 'healthy' and are in their appropriate sizes of partition - so I assume the data is still there.
However, the filing system is RAW - which doesn't bode well from what I have read elsewhere. Is my only alternative to use a recovery program? I obviously can't format as I have stuff on there.
Also, this may be better in hard drives / windows forums - so if a passing mod would be kind enough
I've managed to get the drive to connect in OS X. I was looking through the files and everything was ship-shape - started to transfer it over to my new drive and it un-mounted in that lovely way that it does. Did that about two more times and I'm not sure why.
Stuck Vista on Boot-Camp and thought I'd have more luck with that, given that Windows would be more used to dealing with all types of drives - but it's not even recognising it. I'm getting the noise when you plug a USB device in and the driver for 'USB MASS Storage Device' is installing fine - but nothing there.
Checked Computer Management as well, nothing there.
As I've posted this in the Mac forum, I'd be happier to make it work with OS X, especially given the drive I'm transferring it onto is in Journal OS X (saves me installing MacDrive on Windows) - anyone got any ideas?
As I've said, it has picked it up a few times, just having trouble with the un-mouting of itself.
Knowing my luck I'll eventually get it working to find out the hard drive has corrupted itself with this mornings efforts.
Cheers.
Edit
Okay, so I've somehow managed to get it picked up in Vista. It's in two partitions but in the explorer both are empty. So I went into the Computer Management section and both partitions are 'healthy' and are in their appropriate sizes of partition - so I assume the data is still there.
However, the filing system is RAW - which doesn't bode well from what I have read elsewhere. Is my only alternative to use a recovery program? I obviously can't format as I have stuff on there.
Also, this may be better in hard drives / windows forums - so if a passing mod would be kind enough
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