How to Connect Old Drive to Recover Data

Hi,

I have just installed a new hard drive, Samsung Spinpoint F3, after my old one failed to boot and had been noisy previously. I have reinstalled Vista on the new drive and all is well.

I now want to try and recover some data from my old drive Maxtor 6V200OE. There are various freeware programme recommended but the question is how to I physically connect and power up the drive to get at the data?

Do I need to put it back in the computer, and if so how do I stop the computer trying to use or boot from the old disk, it still has Vista installed? I think I read somewhere that I need to allocate a primary drive Is this in the BIOS or can I do it with jumper switches. Both drives are SAT 11.

I am aware that there are IDE/USb adapters available, but this is likely to be a one off transfer of data, so does not justify the cost.

Any help would be appreciated.

Axel

 

What type of drives are these? is the maxtor IDE or PATA, or is it SATA? same with the samsung. If they are IDE, then you will need to set the jumpers properly, have the samsung be the Master (check your documentation on how to do it) and the Maxtor as slave. If only the maxtor is IDE, then you probably wont have to do anything. just install it, and you might have to go into the bios to select which drive to boot from, but I suspect that it will boot from the new drive. It will come up as a 2nd drive in your computer, then you can copy things from it. (you might need to run some recovery software to get to things that may have become corrupt)

 

Hi,

Both drives are STAT 11 as noted in the first post.

Axel

 

then go right ahead and put the old one in. It should boot with the drive that you want. then you can copy what you need.