I am currently trying to access an HDD from an older computer of mine that I recently replaced. The hard drive is a Western Digital WD400 (40 GB) The drive runs fine with no clicks or other noticeable problems. I cannot hook it up directly to the MB because it uses SATA connections and this one is a IDE/PATA hard disk, therefore I have an IDE to USB adapter. The drive shows up in the disk manager, but it will not initialize. Is there anything else I can try? Thanks in advance for your help!
Check the jumbers on the 40GB IDE and make sure its set to master another way is a SATA to IDE adapter. The drive may just have gone bad over time it happens to the really old drives like this one you have.
I guess it may have gone bad, unfortunately. I hear the device connect sound when I hook it in and disconnect sound when I unhook it. The jumper was set to CS, so I moved it to Master and it still doesn't work.
The sound is the usb adapter making connection hot the HDD itself download r-studio run in demo see if it can scan the drive at all report back findings
Sorry for the double post. I tried moving the jumper back to CS and now it is finally recognized. Sadly it's telling me I have to format it before I can use it. Oddly enough, the drive size shows up as 45.27 GB even though it is just a 40GB drive. (See image below) I will try some recovery programs to see if I can get anything back.
EDIT: I've now tried to format the drive and it says Windows could not format the drive. If I try from Disk Manager, it says "The format did not complete successfully."
He wants to recover data format won't help! Poster try scanning drive with R-Studio demo and see if it can see the data try to view a few of them as well
I've now tried to format the drive and it says Windows could not format the drive. If I try from Disk Manager, it says "The format did not complete successfully."
Very good question so far he has ignored my advice anyway and attempting to initialize and format the drive won't help him recover data as he seems to want to do on one of his posts. Typical behavior it seems
It looks like you would know that data can be recovered even after formatting. I tried scanning the drive with several programs and none of them worked to scan the drive. I moved the jumper BACK to CS and the drive was recognized. Formatting was the only way to get the drive to work. I couldn't even do a quick format, I had to go the long way and it took around an hour. Anyway, I am now recovering the data. For what it's worth it's because of YOU that I COULD get it working again since I moved the jumper. Thanks for the help, and I'm sorry if I seem stubborn.
YOU got LUCKY I do recovery for a living so yes I know. however data CANT be recovered ALL the time after a format just one small example Windows7 format writes zeros to the drive essentially wipes the drive thus NO recovery it all depends on the OS which format you choose lots of variables. I have seen many cases where a format makes the recovery much harder and looses filenames thus raw recovery only which is a huge mess. Without all the facts giving advice via a forum is not clear cut.
I stand by my advice !
Glad you got the data back and your welcome
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