While looking for a mouse in the basement I found two of my very first hard drives. They were IDE so I didn't have anything to power them. So last week I bought an USB 2.0 to SATA/IDE cable on Amazon. Plugged the hard drive in and it took very long to open the folders but eventually I got it open to recover everything I wanted.
After which, I tried to reformat. Neither the normal right click format or CMD would allow me to reformat it. Last night, I ran a format with KILLDISK and it had bad sectors across the board it seemed from the log.
Eventually between unplugging and plugging in, windows no longer will see the drive when it's plugged in. Is the drive dead now? When plugged in it spins and sounds like a normal operating hard drive, but will not popup anywhere on my pc anymore. I have right clicked on My Computer, went to MANAGE and then looked under the drives, but it doesn't show it.
Anything I can do to fix this? I have even plugged it into my Laptop and still wont show there either.
The hard drive is a Western Digital WD Caviar Enhanced IDE HD WD1200, 120 GB
The plug cap in on SLAVE.
Thanks in advance!
After which, I tried to reformat. Neither the normal right click format or CMD would allow me to reformat it. Last night, I ran a format with KILLDISK and it had bad sectors across the board it seemed from the log.
Eventually between unplugging and plugging in, windows no longer will see the drive when it's plugged in. Is the drive dead now? When plugged in it spins and sounds like a normal operating hard drive, but will not popup anywhere on my pc anymore. I have right clicked on My Computer, went to MANAGE and then looked under the drives, but it doesn't show it.
Anything I can do to fix this? I have even plugged it into my Laptop and still wont show there either.
The hard drive is a Western Digital WD Caviar Enhanced IDE HD WD1200, 120 GB
The plug cap in on SLAVE.
Thanks in advance!