Trying to put in a slave drive...

Computer "A" was an AMD Athalon and was running Win98. It messed up and I desparately need to get some pictures off of it. I took it to the guy who made it and the problem with it is it has some bad sectors on it and he couldn't get it to go past 9% in scan disk in safe mode.

So I decided to try to make it a slave drive on computer "B." It is an HP Pavilion 533w running WinXP. I know after much experimentation that is is hooked up right. All the jumpers are on the right places, etc. Computer "B" was reading the drive from "A" in BIOS but once it finally boots it is not reading it after that.

I have looked for it in Device Manager and Disk Management. It is not reading it at all. I don't know what to try now. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I did a search and that is how I know to do what I have done so far.

Thanks,
Lowell

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The said drive will be dead before long and unrecognized.

If you want to make use of it by all means, it must be phisical-formatted first.

Download from Maxtor or other HDD maker the formatter.

If it failed, try to find WIPE.COM somwhere on the web.

If these didn't work, throw it away.

Don't format the drive if you need data from it. If it shows up in disk management you can try to assign a drive letter to it. If not, it may be too close to death.

Hi Lowell,

Get SpinRite.

Disconnect your other HDs.

Boot on a 98se floppy and run SpinRite.

If anything can save it, SpinRite will.

Let us know.

DC4

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But Maxtor's Adavanced Test has repair function at physical level. It is safe and works sometime.

If Spinrite or other salvage service fail.

There is a last resort, but needs somewhat dexterity, and somewhat dangerous.

In a word, there are motor connection and signal connection. Then shut down signal line and make it race a few minute. Then plug it again. This revives HD for a while.

This is a summary, on your demand, just call me again.