Slave won't show

I have an external harddrive that crashed. Of course it's IDE, and all my IDE computers are long dead. Since I couldn't figure out how to make it a slave on my SATA comp, I'm at a friend's house slaving it up to her older IDE computer.

It's running Windows XP, and the drive shows as a slave during BIOS (although it does run a warning at the very beginning of setup that the harddrive is failing and should be backed up immediately, hence directing me into BIOS where I see it showing as a slave.)

However, once I get the OS up and running, the slave doesn't show at all. Not in Windows Explorer, nor in Drive Management.

I'm really hoping to find a way to force it to show so that I don't end up having to go paying to get my pics back off, but I'm also just rather confused about why the slave'll show in BIOS, but not once booted.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Since it's a disk level problem, I'm recommending Roadkil's Raw Copy to try and retrieve the files from the failing drive. It's available as an installer or stand alone product from the site. Run it on your friend's computer.

 

That's because you can't. Unlike EIDE (PATA) drives, SATA drives sit one drive per cable - not two. Therefore, there is no Master or Slave (or CS) with SATA drives, or when using a mixed SATA and PATA setup.

Also, note that XP does not support SATA natively. SATA did not come out until around 2003 and XP came out a couple years before that. The typical method to install SATA support into XP is to do so during the early stages of the OS installation.

 

It'll be a couple days before I have access to an IDE computer again, but I'll be looking forward to trying that. Do you have a preference on whether the installed or stand-alone works better?

Thanks

 

After playing around with it for a bit that's what I figured, but it's definitely nice to hear it confirmed. And I had no idea about SATA and XPs friendliness - that's interesting. I'm glad that doesn't come into play in my current situation, but that is great to know for future reference.

Thanks for the heads up.

 

They both work equally well. The advantage of the stand alone is you can put it on a flash drive and take it with you and you wouldn't have to install anything on your friend's computer.