I have a Sony Vaio desktop with a SATA HD
I have an old IDE drive that I want to recover data from
I unplugged the IDE disk drives and plugged in the IDE hard drive
It powered up but was not recognized after reboot
The cables are fine
The jumper is set to slave
I am using WindowsXP
Any suggestions?
Thanks
The jumper is set to slave
That may be the problem- SATA drives don't use a Master/Slave relationship. Your ATA drive should be set to Master or to Single if it is the only device on the IDE channel. Which drive the computer tries to boot from (SATA or IDE) is determined by the settings in your BIOS.
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