Salvage files from IDE drive

SirKenin · 12-24-2007, 06:06 AM

Oregon, get one of those r-drivers. You don't want to be screwing around, mounting drives and playing with cables, etc. That's so old sk00l and retardedly pointless. Removable bays are so 1980's. That little unit I showed you is less than $20 and you can switch drives in seconds. It's the best thing since sliced bread. As I mentioned, you have to ensure the drive is set to master if it's IDE.

That thing does PATA, SATA and laptop drives. Believe me, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it. I can do data recovery out of my car now, and burn it to DVD. It saves so much time.

Of course if you're an amateur, I suppose you could always go spend the same $20 to get a removable drive bay that only supports one type of drive. Or you can spend hours pulling drives in and out of a case. Or you could do it the easy way for $15

oregon · 12-24-2007, 07:29 PM

Yes, it does sound convenient and useful. However, I think I will only use it this one time, and I would have to wait a week to even get it. I will try doing slaving the drives with an IDE cable in one of my removable drive bays. If that fails then I may buy it.

dznutz · 12-24-2007, 10:46 PM

you can also get an external pata enclosure to get the files off like a regular external hd.

oregon · 12-24-2007, 11:51 PM

Okay, I slaving the two IDE drives with one cable, but it wouldn't boot, and only one would show up in the BIOS. Then I disconnected one and it worked after a checkdisk. Then switched and did the other. Thanks for all the help. It did seem to take a while though. I was only getting 5MB/s max transferring from a PATA to a Western Digital Passport. Is this normal for a system like mine? How fast do all your systems transfer files?

PC eye · 12-25-2007, 12:30 AM

If you put two drives at once on the ide cable the lack of detection of one may simply be the jumper setting or that one drive has a problem. Often when trying to take stuff off of an old drive the transfer rate will slow(why some hate copy + paste) with a drive seeing a 5400rpm speed or even the older 4200rpm drive speed. Plus add in wear and tear on the drive heads is now taking it's toll.

Here while running a master and slave for storage on the primary ide cable on an older build I simply slaved a third HD to the optical on the second ide in order to rescue files from it for someone. So stating that an ide drive "must be" always set as master is way off. Even on boards with only one ide channel a drive can be slaved to the current optical if needed. Jumper settings will play the largest role.

12-24-2007, 07:29 PM	#12 (permalink)
oregon Diamond Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: portland, oregon Age: 18 Posts: 1,248	Yes, it does sound convenient and useful. However, I think I will only use it this one time, and I would have to wait a week to even get it. I will try doing slaving the drives with an IDE cable in one of my removable drive bays. If that fails then I may buy it. __________________ MB: Gigabyte P35-DS3L CPU: Core 2 Duo E6550 @3.5hz GPU: PNY GeForce 8800 GT 512 RAM: 4GBs DDR2-800 (Ballistix and OCZ SLI) CL4 PSU: Antec NeoPower 650W Case: Antec 900 HDD: Seagate SATA 250GB, 16MB cache Seagate SATA 320GB, 16MB cache

12-24-2007, 10:46 PM	#13 (permalink)
dznutz Platinum Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: california Age: 28 Posts: 627	you can also get an external pata enclosure to get the files off like a regular external hd. __________________ ANTEC 900 OCZ STEALTHXTREAM 500W MSI NEO-F p35 INTEL E4500 ASUS ATI HD3450 2gb OCZ SLI RAM SAMSUNG SH-203N SATA SEAGATE BARRACUDA 1Tb SATA AIRLINK 101 300n pci XP PRO 32 bit

12-24-2007, 11:51 PM	#14 (permalink)
oregon Diamond Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: portland, oregon Age: 18 Posts: 1,248	Okay, I slaving the two IDE drives with one cable, but it wouldn't boot, and only one would show up in the BIOS. Then I disconnected one and it worked after a checkdisk. Then switched and did the other. Thanks for all the help. It did seem to take a while though. I was only getting 5MB/s max transferring from a PATA to a Western Digital Passport. Is this normal for a system like mine? How fast do all your systems transfer files? __________________ MB: Gigabyte P35-DS3L CPU: Core 2 Duo E6550 @3.5hz GPU: PNY GeForce 8800 GT 512 RAM: 4GBs DDR2-800 (Ballistix and OCZ SLI) CL4 PSU: Antec NeoPower 650W Case: Antec 900 HDD: Seagate SATA 250GB, 16MB cache Seagate SATA 320GB, 16MB cache Last edited by oregon; 12-24-2007 at 11:53 PM.

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12-24-2007, 06:06 AM	#11 (permalink)
SirKenin banned Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 4,711	Oregon, get one of those r-drivers. You don't want to be screwing around, mounting drives and playing with cables, etc. That's so old sk00l and retardedly pointless. Removable bays are so 1980's. That little unit I showed you is less than $20 and you can switch drives in seconds. It's the best thing since sliced bread. As I mentioned, you have to ensure the drive is set to master if it's IDE. That thing does PATA, SATA and laptop drives. Believe me, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it. I can do data recovery out of my car now, and burn it to DVD. It saves so much time. Of course if you're an amateur, I suppose you could always go spend the same $20 to get a removable drive bay that only supports one type of drive. Or you can spend hours pulling drives in and out of a case. Or you could do it the easy way for $15

12-25-2007, 12:30 AM	#15 (permalink)
PC eye banned Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Inside a pc Posts: 20,803	If you put two drives at once on the ide cable the lack of detection of one may simply be the jumper setting or that one drive has a problem. Often when trying to take stuff off of an old drive the transfer rate will slow(why some hate copy + paste) with a drive seeing a 5400rpm speed or even the older 4200rpm drive speed. Plus add in wear and tear on the drive heads is now taking it's toll. Here while running a master and slave for storage on the primary ide cable on an older build I simply slaved a third HD to the optical on the second ide in order to rescue files from it for someone. So stating that an ide drive "must be" always set as master is way off. Even on boards with only one ide channel a drive can be slaved to the current optical if needed. Jumper settings will play the largest role.