Trying To Recovery Data From Old HHD 1

[TriRyche]

I have an old 6GB FUJITSU MPB3064ATU that was running Win95.
I no longer have the old PC the HHD came from.

My current PC: Dell OptiplexGX300

I have the old HHD set as master on my 2nd IDE.
Bios sees the drive.
It shows up as D: in My Computer.
Device managers sees it and says device is working.
However, when trying to access the drive, says not formatted.
I tried convert.exe from the command promt and I get the error: convert is not available for RAW drives.

Am I missing something obviuos?

Know any good data recovery apps?

Any help would be greatly appretiated.

 

[rokerij]

Set the drive up as a slave on your primary IDE, and be sure your master drive is set to master. Some drives need jumper settings where others default with no jumpers. At any rate, once you have your drive set as a slave you will boot from your primary and access the your secondary drive, copying the files needed. I'm assuming you have XP as you did not mention it. I have used this method with 2000 and have had no issues gathering old data from old drives. I have never tested with XP. Good luck. Hope I helped.

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[mainegeek]

triryche,
I use GetDataBack often and it works well though you have to purchase it.

http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm

 

[edfair]

You might want to try a boot disk, say 98SE version from

http://www.bootdisk.com

to check whether it can see the drive, or to use fdisk to see what kind of file system is in place.

A 98SE will not be able to see your XP if it is NTFS, but should be able to see the old drive. You might need to put it as primary master for the duration of the test.

There are drive overlays that will show up as non-dos file systems. If you have one of those you will have difficulty getting your data back without the software.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[TriRyche]

Thanks everyone for your help.
I ultimately ended up using winimage from

http://www.bootdisk.com,

it was able to read the old HHD and I was able to recover ALL my data.
Thanks edfair for pointing me in the right direction!