Hello all! Thanks much in advance for any and all help! I've exhausted my limited knowledge and am desperate for any and all help you might be kind enough to share.
My MIL, one of the meanest people God saw fit to put on this earth, has a laptop circa late 1990s/early 2000s that just died and it's fallen onto me to offload the multitudes of mean letters and hateful memoirs she's written over the years. In order to keep Angry Gramma happy, we ordered the part necessary to "slave" her old HDD (a 2.5" IDE laptop HDD) to my laptop's USB: an C2G IDE adapter.
Long story short, I installed said adapter (directly into USB as it's a laptop HDD and can simply use the USB port's power supply) and after a few minutes of clicking (she's got bad heads and we think that's what contributed to her laptop going to the great Best Buy in the sky), the drive (a Toshiba MK101) goes silent, and the LED light on the adapter turns a pretty blue.
But it doesn't show up in Explorer.
I can see the bridge in Devices and Printers ~ I can even see that the HDD is called a Toshiba MK101 and that "this device is working properly." But I can't see it in Explorer. I can see, in D&P, that it's a 9558MB HDD, but I can't see diddly-squat in Explorer.
Other (possibly) pertinent info:
She was running Windows 98, I'm running Windows 7.
I unplugged all other USB peripherals prior to plugging in the adapter, as I've been told that sometimes several peripherals in several USBs at once can lower the rate of power available to the USB ports.
Any advice? Or is it what I fear? That her HDD is *that* dead that her mean letters are lost forever?
(Her mean letters keep her busy ~ plus, if I can't get at least some of those mean letters offloaded, it will forever be my fault and she will go to her grave ~ or rather, drive me to MY grave ~ blaming me and believing that I sabotaged her many letters telling Obama to do nawty things to himself because I am an agent of the debbil. The holidays are stressful enough as it is, yannow?
So, please ... please know that I am eternally grateful for any help you might care to give. Thanks much in advance!!)
And please forgive me for venting ~ I've been at this for a couple of days. 😵
My MIL, one of the meanest people God saw fit to put on this earth, has a laptop circa late 1990s/early 2000s that just died and it's fallen onto me to offload the multitudes of mean letters and hateful memoirs she's written over the years. In order to keep Angry Gramma happy, we ordered the part necessary to "slave" her old HDD (a 2.5" IDE laptop HDD) to my laptop's USB: an C2G IDE adapter.
Long story short, I installed said adapter (directly into USB as it's a laptop HDD and can simply use the USB port's power supply) and after a few minutes of clicking (she's got bad heads and we think that's what contributed to her laptop going to the great Best Buy in the sky), the drive (a Toshiba MK101) goes silent, and the LED light on the adapter turns a pretty blue.
But it doesn't show up in Explorer.
I can see the bridge in Devices and Printers ~ I can even see that the HDD is called a Toshiba MK101 and that "this device is working properly." But I can't see it in Explorer. I can see, in D&P, that it's a 9558MB HDD, but I can't see diddly-squat in Explorer.
Other (possibly) pertinent info:
She was running Windows 98, I'm running Windows 7.
I unplugged all other USB peripherals prior to plugging in the adapter, as I've been told that sometimes several peripherals in several USBs at once can lower the rate of power available to the USB ports.
Any advice? Or is it what I fear? That her HDD is *that* dead that her mean letters are lost forever?
(Her mean letters keep her busy ~ plus, if I can't get at least some of those mean letters offloaded, it will forever be my fault and she will go to her grave ~ or rather, drive me to MY grave ~ blaming me and believing that I sabotaged her many letters telling Obama to do nawty things to himself because I am an agent of the debbil. The holidays are stressful enough as it is, yannow?
So, please ... please know that I am eternally grateful for any help you might care to give. Thanks much in advance!!)
And please forgive me for venting ~ I've been at this for a couple of days. 😵
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