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Post Date: 2012-11-18
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    Posted: 18 Nov 2012 at 4:49pm

Hopefully somebody can help me with a problem. I have data on a hard drive I desperately need, so I took the hard drive out, and brought a special cradle that allows the hard drive to connect to another computer through USB. The original computer is gone. Drive was working fine.

The problem now is that the other computers won't pick my hard drive up and I think that it is because I have windows 95 on it. I have tried Win 98 and Win XP and Win 7 computers. It does notify me that a USB device has been discovered but does not register in device manager.

I also have tried un plugging the hard drives in each computer and plugging in the needed data drive with Win 95 on it. It loads but doesn't give me usb or cd support. It's like the drivers do not load so I can't copy my data.

Does anyone have any idea how I can get into this hard drive without losing all my data?

I would be entirely greatful for ANY help or advice.
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Was this by chance an IDE drive that was also your boot drive ?  If it was, you might have to change the jumper to slave or system select instead of master.









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Posts: 46 		  Quote Roonie Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 18 Nov 2012 at 5:24pm
Good thought but....
Yeah I did that per enclosure instructions. Yes it is an IDE drive.
I also tried master, slave, auto select and even removed jumper.
Please keep on suggesting!
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For grins and giggles, turn the drive upside down or the opposite orientation it was mounted in the PC and see what it does.

If that doesn't work, then you will have to look at the USB cable, not enough power to spin the drive up to full speed, bad disk controller etc.
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I agree that it sounds like not enough power.   The cradle I assume has its own power source since USB alone usually isn't enough.    I would try a IDE to SATA adapter and go directlg to the mobo's SATA port and power from the psu harness and see if that helps.

Good luck.    

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Thanks for the suggestions.
Yes, the case does have a separate power source.
I have tried using the drive IDE straight to the computer without other drives hooked up. ( have not tried an adapter to go to the sata port )
It loads win 95 but I can not copy the data, like not all drivers are loading. I can't get it to email to work.
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Posts: 20391 		  Quote bprat22 Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 19 Nov 2012 at 9:05am
Does the drive show in Disk Management? ... Start...Right click Computer... Manage...Disk Management.?  maybe not active with black bar on top of it meaning not allocated.  Blue bar means allocated and ready to go. 
 
You might have to right click the drive in Disk Management and set to Active or something close.  .  Or go to Device Manager, expand the USB ports, find where the HDD is plugged in, right click, uninstall, reboot ( cold boot not restart ) and let Windows find it and reinstall.
 
Tough to say from here. 
 
 
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Posts: 46 		  Quote Roonie Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 19 Nov 2012 at 9:11am
Will try later today.
Did not show in Device Manager from before but will try with it plugged in as operating system directly as only drive in computer.
Let you later
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Posts: 46 		  Quote Roonie Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 20 Nov 2012 at 4:42pm
You said......Does the drive show in Disk Management?
It does not, when connected with another IDE drive. (The one with the old win 98 when designated as slave with my data on it)
How can I get it to show up?
Please remember that when I use it as master by itself it will start and load the computer but none of the USB or cd or Internet is present. Like it has lost some drivers.
Thanks brat
I know a little more
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