Hey guys. My first post will be a cry for help. I'll try to keep it simple and still provide a lot information:
I recently lost my computer to hardware problems and decided to go ahead and upgrade to a new one. The hard drive in the lost machine was unaffected and I want the data off of it. I don't want to do a data transfer service commercially because I don't quite grasp how they will get the specific data I want--mostly my girlfriend's pictures of family, etc., and both of our VERY important school work. Honest injun I'm not doing this because I don't want my massive collection of porn to be found out. I just don't want to pay 70 bucks to have a) not all of my important stuff transfered, or b) 100 bucks to have my stuff and gobs of un-needed files transfered as well. I asked the guy how they did it and he basically said, "usually we handle finding the stuff." Is that supposed to mean he can transfer all of my writing and schoolwork spanning .rtf, .doc, .xls, and many others from a dozen different directories without charging me for the .doc files from a thousand related programs? So:
I popped the hard drive out of my old tower. It was a Seagate Barracuda model from a Gateway out of the box system. I didn't want to try and open up my brand new computer, so I'm trying to slave it into a tower that is probably significantly older. So I'm kinda working reverse: I want to transfer off a newer hard-drive into an older computer where I can burn my data and then put it back onto my brand new machine by CD.
I opened the older tower and found the hard-drive (A Western Digital Caviar model) hooked up to a ribbon cable with a single pin connector on it. There was, however, a ribbon connector labeled slave. I plugged the hard drive to be transfered into that ribbon and connected the free power source pin connector to it as well.
I played with the jumper pins, removing the jumper from the Barracuda (for the slave setting, I believe) and re-setting the pin in the Caviar from the Cable Detect setting to the center "Master" setting. Everything looked good, my hopes were up, but upon booting I got no indication of a slave drive in BIOS or in the operating system of the older tower I'm using for transfer (running ME, the hard drive is from an XP machine). The BIOS settings for master and slave were both default on AUTO.
So what is my problem? I played with the jumper pins a bit, trying both of the hard-drives on Cable Detect, as well as a few other combinations. Frighteningly enough at one point all I was getting was a black screen with "PRESS F11 TO RECOVER" (and F11 did nothing). That's why I didn't want to use the brand new machine, for fear of frying it. Well I got the older tower back up and running and gave up, and now I'm here.
Have I set the jumpers incorrectly? Is there a problem with compatibility between ME and XP hard-drive setups? I'm not sure if both hard-drives are ATA or IDE or what... could this be an issue? Can anyone help me out here? I have decent computer knowledge, but I'm not very good with jargon or technical details (if you couldn't notice!).
Here are links to the Caviar jumper settings: http://www.wdc.com/en/library/eide/2579-001037.pdf
And the Barracuda jumper settings: https://search.seagate.com/wwwsearc...ings&x=0&y=0&la=en&style=wwwenus&col=en-USall
The machine that held the hard drive I want recovered was a Gateway out of the box media machine not even one year old. The tower I'm trying to transfer into is a Hewlett Packard out of the box system, at least four years old, but is running ME and can burn CD's, if that gives you a better idea of age.
I recently lost my computer to hardware problems and decided to go ahead and upgrade to a new one. The hard drive in the lost machine was unaffected and I want the data off of it. I don't want to do a data transfer service commercially because I don't quite grasp how they will get the specific data I want--mostly my girlfriend's pictures of family, etc., and both of our VERY important school work. Honest injun I'm not doing this because I don't want my massive collection of porn to be found out. I just don't want to pay 70 bucks to have a) not all of my important stuff transfered, or b) 100 bucks to have my stuff and gobs of un-needed files transfered as well. I asked the guy how they did it and he basically said, "usually we handle finding the stuff." Is that supposed to mean he can transfer all of my writing and schoolwork spanning .rtf, .doc, .xls, and many others from a dozen different directories without charging me for the .doc files from a thousand related programs? So:
I popped the hard drive out of my old tower. It was a Seagate Barracuda model from a Gateway out of the box system. I didn't want to try and open up my brand new computer, so I'm trying to slave it into a tower that is probably significantly older. So I'm kinda working reverse: I want to transfer off a newer hard-drive into an older computer where I can burn my data and then put it back onto my brand new machine by CD.
I opened the older tower and found the hard-drive (A Western Digital Caviar model) hooked up to a ribbon cable with a single pin connector on it. There was, however, a ribbon connector labeled slave. I plugged the hard drive to be transfered into that ribbon and connected the free power source pin connector to it as well.
I played with the jumper pins, removing the jumper from the Barracuda (for the slave setting, I believe) and re-setting the pin in the Caviar from the Cable Detect setting to the center "Master" setting. Everything looked good, my hopes were up, but upon booting I got no indication of a slave drive in BIOS or in the operating system of the older tower I'm using for transfer (running ME, the hard drive is from an XP machine). The BIOS settings for master and slave were both default on AUTO.
So what is my problem? I played with the jumper pins a bit, trying both of the hard-drives on Cable Detect, as well as a few other combinations. Frighteningly enough at one point all I was getting was a black screen with "PRESS F11 TO RECOVER" (and F11 did nothing). That's why I didn't want to use the brand new machine, for fear of frying it. Well I got the older tower back up and running and gave up, and now I'm here.
Have I set the jumpers incorrectly? Is there a problem with compatibility between ME and XP hard-drive setups? I'm not sure if both hard-drives are ATA or IDE or what... could this be an issue? Can anyone help me out here? I have decent computer knowledge, but I'm not very good with jargon or technical details (if you couldn't notice!).
Here are links to the Caviar jumper settings: http://www.wdc.com/en/library/eide/2579-001037.pdf
And the Barracuda jumper settings: https://search.seagate.com/wwwsearc...ings&x=0&y=0&la=en&style=wwwenus&col=en-USall
The machine that held the hard drive I want recovered was a Gateway out of the box media machine not even one year old. The tower I'm trying to transfer into is a Hewlett Packard out of the box system, at least four years old, but is running ME and can burn CD's, if that gives you a better idea of age.
