- Feb 13, 2014
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Hello all,
I have an old IDE drive that I'm trying to get the data off of. I have a UDE/SATA to USB adapter that I'm using.
The adapter is perfectly fine, it powers up the IDE CD drive that I used to test it but it simply will not connect my IDE hard drive to my computer. It also powers up internal SATA drives that I pulled out of my laptops just to check.
The IDE drive shows up in device manager as WD800 drive but under disk management it shows the drive as "No media". I have assigned multiple different drive letters to it but nothing works.
I have used Easeus drive recovery to see if it could pick anything up but it too shows the drive as having no media with 0 volumes. I have tried disabling it in device manager as well. Also tried to update the drivers.
The IDE drive itself is perfectly fine. When I put it back in my old IDE computer that it came from it boots up Windows XP and everything just fine an all of my data is on there just as it was 10 years ago.
Problem is that I have a nasty virus/corrupted system files on that drive that prevents me from installing anything on it and the copy and paste function doesn't work and neither does drag and drop. So basically I have my external HD plugged into my old computer, I have all of my files on my old computer, but I have no way to transfer them off of it. I tried to install WD utilities on my old computer to let my external HD just back the whole thing up but even that won't work. Windows installer is corrupted. I can't enable clipbook to make copy and paste work, no matter what I do in system or regedit it still doesn't work.
So I can see all of my old files, I can access them on that old computer, but I want to get them off of that ASAP and on to an external drive because I feel like that old WD IDE drive is on its last legs.
I simply want to plug it into my new computer via the IDE/USB adapter and copy the stuff off of it like I do with every single other drive I have laying around here. But only this drive refuses to show up as anything but "No media".
I don't have another old computer to hook it up to as a slave drive with an IDE port so I'm stuck using the adapter.
I have tried using the adapter to hook it up to my laptop as well at the same problem remains.
Would whatever is wrong with that old drive (virus of corrupt system files) prevent it from showing up via the USB adapter in my other computers? A corrupted partition perhaps? It boots up fine in the original old computer though so I would think it would show up in the new ones?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have an old IDE drive that I'm trying to get the data off of. I have a UDE/SATA to USB adapter that I'm using.
The adapter is perfectly fine, it powers up the IDE CD drive that I used to test it but it simply will not connect my IDE hard drive to my computer. It also powers up internal SATA drives that I pulled out of my laptops just to check.
The IDE drive shows up in device manager as WD800 drive but under disk management it shows the drive as "No media". I have assigned multiple different drive letters to it but nothing works.
I have used Easeus drive recovery to see if it could pick anything up but it too shows the drive as having no media with 0 volumes. I have tried disabling it in device manager as well. Also tried to update the drivers.
The IDE drive itself is perfectly fine. When I put it back in my old IDE computer that it came from it boots up Windows XP and everything just fine an all of my data is on there just as it was 10 years ago.
Problem is that I have a nasty virus/corrupted system files on that drive that prevents me from installing anything on it and the copy and paste function doesn't work and neither does drag and drop. So basically I have my external HD plugged into my old computer, I have all of my files on my old computer, but I have no way to transfer them off of it. I tried to install WD utilities on my old computer to let my external HD just back the whole thing up but even that won't work. Windows installer is corrupted. I can't enable clipbook to make copy and paste work, no matter what I do in system or regedit it still doesn't work.
So I can see all of my old files, I can access them on that old computer, but I want to get them off of that ASAP and on to an external drive because I feel like that old WD IDE drive is on its last legs.
I simply want to plug it into my new computer via the IDE/USB adapter and copy the stuff off of it like I do with every single other drive I have laying around here. But only this drive refuses to show up as anything but "No media".
I don't have another old computer to hook it up to as a slave drive with an IDE port so I'm stuck using the adapter.
I have tried using the adapter to hook it up to my laptop as well at the same problem remains.
Would whatever is wrong with that old drive (virus of corrupt system files) prevent it from showing up via the USB adapter in my other computers? A corrupted partition perhaps? It boots up fine in the original old computer though so I would think it would show up in the new ones?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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