Slave drive does not show up in Windows

I need to get info off of an old hard drive so I installed it as a slave in another computer (both HDs set to cable select). I can see and access the drive in the recovery console, but it does not show up in Windows (XP). If I go to disk management, it does show up there, but when I right click on it to assign a drive, I only have the delete partition option and the help option.

The hard drive initially had GoBack on it, and it would not boot up in the original computer. It would give you the option to GoBack, but it wouldn't. It would not boot into safe mode or normal mode. All I got was the GoBack screen.

There are some files, pictures mostly, that need to be removed from the HD. Any help would be appreciated.

P.S. I tried to copy the files from inside the recovery console to the C: drive, but kept giving me errors (invalid parameters). I could be novice enough that I did not use the right format or is it even possible to do that?

 

For clarity PATA hdds.

1. is the hdd recognised by the bios
2. if answer to 1. is yes then try new ide cable.
3. if 2 does not remedy then instead of using cable select jumpers on drive, make the original drive a master and 2nd drive slave.

If the drive shows up in the recovery console I think that the drive is ok and that either changing the cable and/or jumpering the drives to master and slave will correct

Alternative to getting data off drive, is to connect it via an ide/sata to usb2 connector and to use a Linux Live cd.

Good Luck

 

I used a new cable...no luck. Changed the master to master and the slave to slave instead of using cable select, still no luck. Can you give me more details to get data off?

Thanks for your help.

 

You could just try a Linux CD and see if it sees the drive without an additional cable. Linux Mint is a very easy to use version of Linux. It looks pretty much like XP. It is a 700mb download. You would write the ISO file to CD using imgburn or similar burning software. Then boot from the CD and you should be able to browse using the Computer icon just like in XP. Whether or not it can mount the partition can't be told unless you try it.

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Recovery console is very limited and only allows you to write to a few folders. I'm not sure it would let you write to the C: drive. If the error you got was bad parameters maybe you can tell us what commands you were trying.

Did you first move into the folder containing the pictures then try to copy to C:?
Something like

Code:

CD Users
CD YourUserName
CD Picturefolder 
Dir would list all the files
D:\Users\YourUserName\PictureFolder> Copy *.* C:\*.*