Old HDD won't initialize

[Doombot1]

Hello! For the record, I am using windows 10 home, and the disk model is ST3120A. It is a 128MB Seagate IDE HDD from (obviously) quite a while ago. I would like to open it on my computer (and hopefully use it) for a school project. I plug it in to my USB port via a USB to SATA/IDE cable (which I know works because I've used it with many other drives), and it is powered by a wall cord/transformer (that also works and had been tested on many drives). When the drive was first plugged in, it registered in both disk manager and in diskpart (this was when it was in the USB 3.0 port). However, when switched to my 2.0 port, it still appears the same in disk manager, but not in diskpart (list disk). When in disk manager, the drive is offline and uninitialized. Trying to init. it, GPT doesn't work as the drive is too small, and I get an "Incorrect Function" error when trying to use MBR as well as when trying to put it online. When CHKDSK was actually showing the disk, I did a detail disk on it, and the following came up:

st3120AT USB Device
Disk ID: 00000000
Type : USB
Status : 0
Part : 0
Target : 0
LUN ID: 0
Location Path : UNAVAILABLE
Current Read-only State : No
Read-only : No
Boot Disk : No
Pagefile Disk : No
Hibernation File Disk : No
Crashdump Disk : No
Clustered Disk : No

There are no volumes.

When in Disk Manager, when I click on properties, the disk is said to be working and everything, just it says that the disk has 0b of space and whatnot. I also updated the drivers for the disk and all of that too. However, one of the tabs does say that the disk did not migrate. Does anyone have any idea how I can get this drive to work (if possible)?

Thanks for the help!

-Doombot1

 

[VincentP]

If you are trying to get data off the drive, initialising the drive will destroy any data.
A data recovery place might be able to do it, but it won't be cheap.
If you are trying to use it for new data, it's not worth it.

 

[Doombot1]

If you are trying to get data off the drive, initialising the drive will destroy any data.
A data recovery place might be able to do it, but it won't be cheap.
If you are trying to use it for new data, it's not worth it.

Not trying to recover anything. It isn't worth it for sure (data-wise), I have multiple terabyte drives around. So that's not why. I just want to (if possible) put any data on the drive for a school project. I'm trying to show that even though drives like this are very old, it's not too hard to connect them (I have proven myself wrong with this already but nonetheless I would like to try and get it working if possible). I did try a SCSI drive already, which did work in its original computer, but as I found out, going SCSI to DB25 and then DB25 to USB doesn't work (data conversion and whatnot). So I figured I'd try with this one to hopefully come across even a tiny bit of success... Thanks!