Old disk

[babac]

Ok... few days ago, i opened an old laptop toshiba t4500c (486) and unplugged hdd which is seagate st9385ag

i bought 44pin to usb converter and plugged in... disk is listed in device manager, but not in my computer

i tried with disk menagement, but disk can not be initialized

any ideas?

 

[electrontau]

was it functioning before in the laptop? Also be sure to remove any jumpers.

 

[babac]

jumpers were removed (set as master) and it worked i laptop without any errors

 

[gtvr]

are you trying to get something off of there?

How big is the drive?

What OS is on the new PC?

 

[babac]

get word files

320MB

win7

 

[babac]

refresh

 

[gtvr]

well obviously you don't want to initialize it if it's got data you need.

Can you try it on a different PC, maybe something with XP on it?

 

[MrLinux]

If the drive is that old it'll use CHS addressing, most (if not all) USB adaptors will use LBA addressing; bottom line: it won't work; the only way will be to connect it directly to the MoBo IDE port.

 

[gtvr]

I hadn't thought of that. Do the new mobo's even still support CHS? Wow, flashback to entering that info manually for HDs!

 

[babac]

@MrLinux

you confused me for a moment with connecting 44 pin onto MoBo. i looked on two MoBos intel and amd and haven't found 44pin connector.

i saw these convertors here http://www.logicsupply.com/categories/cables/data_storage but im shore i cant find 'em in my country. i'll keep on looking, maybe that can solve the problem

if anybody else have any ideas, don't be shy 😉

 

[babac]

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