I have a 250GB Seagate hard drive that’s not being recognized.
My Seagate IDE hard drive isn’t being recognized by my windows 10 computer. I don’t have a IDE to usb so I can’t hook it up to my Mac.
I’ve been trying to retrieve the data off of it for my grandpa but I’m not sure why my computer isn’t recognizing it. It’s windows formatted cause my grandpa was using it with his windows 7 laptop. The hard drive was in an enclosure and I took it out and i don’t have the enclosure anymore. The enclosures power jack was lose so I thought I could take it out and put the data on a new hard drive.
Here’s the hard drive up top:
And here’s the connection on the motherboard:
Now I noticed that it’s making a weird clicking noise:
I’ve got it to show up on windows but it can’t access data:(
Questa è una buona domanda?
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@paperboypaddy what model hard drive is it and how do you have it connected? What was going on with the drive that you are planning to move the files to another drive? Where do you want to install the new HDD to?
da oldturkey03
@oldturkey03 I put an image in my post. And I have it plugged in to my Dell optiplex gx620 as a Internal drive. All that was wrong is when it was in its enclosure the power port was very lose so to use it you needed to hold the power cable there. It’s a older drive and it would be better to have a new higher capacity drive. All the drive is used for is to store documents and maybe some backups.
da Padraic Hoselton
How did you hook it up to your Dell? Post some images as well
da oldturkey03
@oldturkey03 I hooked it up like a normal hard drive just with the ide and molex connectors.
da Padraic Hoselton
Your hookup looks OK, the picture shows you the jumpers to have for master, slave. cable select. Power down and change to cable select if on master or change to master if cable select. Try again to boot into your bios using the F2 key quickly as you see the blue Dell logo. Can you see the hard drive from the bios? some bios settings turn off the ata ports so make sure both sata and ata are turned on. If you can see the hard drive in the bios then you are good to try and use the drive. If not try and re do the jumper and look in the bios again. Listen to the drive for this noise again. This clicking sounds like the read right head is going to the end of travel and not reading the MBR so the drive may be damaged by a bump or improper handling on the removal. I think the drive is hooped from the sound. Good luck
da altbell