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valeria
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Post subject: Re: Any hope for a hard drive that isn't detected by bios?  Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 6:45 am |
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The very first thing to check are the jumpers if you have an IDE drive. An IDE cable can support two devices, one as a Primary and one as a Seconday. These are sometimes referred to as Master and Slave.
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Post subject: Re: Any hope for a hard drive that isn't detected by bios? Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:54 am |
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valeria wrote: The very first thing to check are the jumpers if you have an IDE drive. An IDE cable can support two devices, one as a Primary and one as a Seconday. These are sometimes referred to as Master and Slave. That is kinda vague Valeria what exactly am suppose to be checking? The jumper is in and is aligned to work as slave as I was trying to boot from a machine and then see if I could browse the hard drive.
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Post subject: Re: Any hope for a hard drive that isn't detected by bios? Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 7:38 am |
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If it is the only drive in the system or the only drive on an IDE channel then the jumper settings probably won't matter. If there is another drive in the system and on the same cable then one needs to be set as master and the other as slave and the drives put on the correct ribbon cable headers.
Also check you have the right end of the cable plugged into the motherboard.
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Setek
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Post subject: Re: Any hope for a hard drive that isn't detected by bios? Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 9:32 am |
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grstanford wrote: If it is the only drive in the system or the only drive on an IDE channel then the jumper settings probably won't matter. If there is another drive in the system and on the same cable then one needs to be set as master and the other as slave and the drives put on the correct ribbon cable headers.
Also check you have the right end of the cable plugged into the motherboard. Okay I thought that is what you guys meant just wanted to make sure, those were some of the very first things I did when I first came across the drive, I'm going to try freezing it.
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Post subject: Re: Any hope for a hard drive that isn't detected by bios? Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 12:57 pm |
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Apparently if you can buy the *exact* same hard drive you can transplant the platters over. Or as others have said, try the freezer trick.
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Setek
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Post subject: Re: Any hope for a hard drive that isn't detected by bios? Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 3:40 pm |
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SickBeast wrote: Apparently if you can buy the *exact* same hard drive you can transplant the platters over. Or as others have said, try the freezer trick. Apparently that is out dated. With the older models sure but they state the newer models PCB contains so much information unique to that specific hard drive that even if you switch over a similar PCB it will not recognize the drive.
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Post subject: Re: Any hope for a hard drive that isn't detected by bios? Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 4:14 am |
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apoppin wrote: It costs nothing to try
And do not stick it in a bag or water may condense - just place it in the freezer
then be prepared to copy as much data as you can Do you always not use a bag Apo? Because these guys seem to be placing the hard drives in ziplock bags.
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Post subject: Re: Any hope for a hard drive that isn't detected by bios? Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 9:53 am |
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Nope.. . it doesn't matter. Your freezer isn't a swamp and it isn't in there very long. what are you waiting for? 
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