Here are a few issues/resolutions I have encountered with them regarding the systems failure to detect the drive.ġ.) Wait. had a good read of previous suggestions around similar problems or topicsĪs an alternative - if I cant make this work I would be interested in recommendations of UK based harddrive recovery firms that I could post this to and get the data by mailed back to me on a USB stick. trying to connect to an iMac using MacOS to see if that was more successful

changing the jumper settings from Master to Cable Select

all connected at reboot, connect the adaptor only at reboot then the drive afterwards, etc rebooting and reconnecting the components in different orders, i.e. The connector seems to connect to the IDE fine. The drive spins & powers up, but the USB device doesnt seem to be recognised. So I can see nothing in Disk Management in the Computer Management application and the drive doesnt seem to be recognised. However, when I came to repeat this with the older Fujitsu MPF3014AT 20Gb drive the drive isn't recognised.

The drivers were identified installed and it worked simply as I had expected based on the Youtube videos etc I had read. I am using a laptop running Windows 7 (Home edition). I bought a USB IDE/SATA adaptor and easily accessed the Western Digital WD1600 drive. I have two old IDE harddrives that I was looking to access some data from.

Usb to ide linux