hardrive question

quinns2003

hi guys.. i have a seagate barracuda drive out of a dell pc which the motherboard has recently failed so it was scrapped but the hardrive has alot of photos on which we need to save (this is my mums machine) i have a spare hardrive in a case plugged into my tv so i removed it and wired up the seagate but my dell running win7 installs it and shows it in my comp but its not readable, if i click on it it just freezes my pc up . so i tried my wifes laptop which is vista and the same problem..i then plugged it into my transformer prime and that shows it but with only some files on which seem to be just a few files from the dell part of the hardrive.. anyone got any ideas ? thx

DevCoder

Make a bootable cd/usb with Hiren's boot tools and use one of its recovery/disk tools to provide more information, have you configured the barracuda drive as slave if you are putting it in a pc with a master boot drive?

http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd

Figment

If it's a IDE disc, check how the jumpers are set. it's possibly set as master - it needs to be set as slave.

quinns2003

my old pc hardrive that i have fitted in a hdd enclosure is plug and play straight into my pc so i presumed this hardrive fitted to the enclosure would be the same ! has all the same terminals etc...

Figment

Not necessarily, as already stated, if it is set as a master it could cause the issue you're seeing. It could also hang the machine and in some circumstances corrupt data on the genuine master drive (as the PC will see two masters and not know which is the true one)

quinns2003

ah i follow now.. it surely will be master.. what is the easiest way to set it to slave..thx for quick replies guys

Figment

Take the drive out of the enclosure and look at the end where the cable plugs in.Assuming it's an IDE drive, it will have a ribbon cable roughly 2" wide going into a socket with 39/40 pins. Between this and the power socket will be some more pins, possibly with a small jumper between two of them. Look on the label to find out which pins need to be jumpered to make it a slave (different settings on different drives, some have a jumper for master, not for slave, others are vice versa)

If in doubt, post the full model number of the drive and someone will check.

LincolnshireYokel

You might be better setting it as Cable Select.................

Figment

only if cable select is supported by the cable in the caddy.

quinns2003

the drive is a seagate barracuda ST340014A 7200.7

exact config as mine http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?hl=en&safe=off&sa=X&biw=1920&bih=934&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=790E6pZNHDBgSM:&imgrefurl=http://www.zis4u.com/40gb-seagate-hard-drive-st340014a-logic-board-100282772-p-2636.html&docid=MqNXVXFZdyNijM&imgurl=http://www.zis4u.com/images/April%2525202012%252520144.jpg&w=640&h=480&ei=XzPeT5KzC4q38gO788WrCw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=306&vpy=2&dur=6579&hovh=194&hovw=259&tx=137&ty=91&sig=117658284556734275342&page=2&tbnh=137&tbnw=181&start=53&ndsp=61&ved=1t:429,r:21,s:53,i:304

quinns2003

image on back shows jumper to be cable select