Second HD

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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

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Jan 21st, 2006

Re: Second HD

Quote originally posted by mab1966 ...

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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