Read http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/confCable80-c.html
Also, I always try on the second channel to avoid corruption of the primary drive.
I saved a couple of hard drives from years past that went bad. I'm interested in seeing what's on them now. All of them have an OS loaded and none of them will hook up to my PC. I have another thread running for a similar problem with a good hard drive but here's the specifics:
P4 Windows XP Pro PC, 512MB, 200GB IDE hard disks, 80 wire IDE cables.
One of the drives I want to explore is a 60GB Quantum that's 4 years old and was determined to be dead by a local PC shop.
The other is a 6 GB IBM drive that's at least 7 years old.
Set the jumpers into the Slave Position, hook up to IDE cable, connect power, start PC . . . my PC won't load Windows with the corrupt drives connected to it.
Is there a simple way of getting the data off these drives that I haven't figured out. Am I attempting the impossible? What am I doing wrong.
And another question, lets say my new (Primary)HDD goes bad later on and Windows won't load, etc. Is there a way that I can recover what is on the drive without having to take it to a shop?
Thanks for the help
Matt

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