I have looked around and there is no real way to add the IDE controller to the mobo. I need to get the data off this HDD but I can't even clone it because of this IDE issue. The HDD is actually SATA, but that doesn't matter, it still needs to use IDE setting because of its age.
Wondering if there is a simple hardware solution to this. Such as a SATA to USB external adapter. Would this have in built technology that bypasses my problem?
The only other solution I can think of is actually buying an old PC from somewhere just so I can boot the HDD from it and quickly get the data off it.
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
Edit: Managed to recover all data. Mostly by changing permissions and accessing the drive like an external. It was tedious and took a lot of fiddling. The drive is on its last legs.
Also used testdisk to find some deleted files as well.
Thank you all for the assistance.
Wondering if there is a simple hardware solution to this. Such as a SATA to USB external adapter. Would this have in built technology that bypasses my problem?
The only other solution I can think of is actually buying an old PC from somewhere just so I can boot the HDD from it and quickly get the data off it.
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
Edit: Managed to recover all data. Mostly by changing permissions and accessing the drive like an external. It was tedious and took a lot of fiddling. The drive is on its last legs.
Also used testdisk to find some deleted files as well.
Thank you all for the assistance.
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