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13th Apr 2009, 15:45
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I have an issue. After a recent fire I lost 2 of my computers but was able to save the hard drives. I now have purchased a AirLink 101 enclosure to transfer the data from these drives to my new computer.
Without too much trouble I have done this successfully with oldest of these drives a Quantum Bigfoot however (this is my issue): When I try the same process with the newer hard drive, a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 120GB it loads in the device manager, tells me it installs "successfully" but does not assign a drive letter and show in My Computer. The operating system of the old drives were windows XP and the new computer is Vista (I was told this does not matter but it seemed important to me) The enclosure connects through USB I have changed the Maxtor jumpers to every configuration:Master, Slave, CS enable, and Cap link with only getting drive recognition with Cap link but then it wants to format which defeats the entire pupose.  I have gone into Disk Management to try to manually assign a drive letter but that option is hazed and cannot be selected I have also put the drive inside the PC directly but get the same results. I am not good at searching but have made many attempts on many forums to search for resolution to no avail: if there is a post that answers this previously please link me to that  Thanks for any help TBM |
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13th Apr 2009, 16:05
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seems you done everything right, what OS the old Hdd dose not matter unless u got the OS installed on it i would suggest deleting them... u seem to be going through alot of trouble of such a silly reason
why dont u get 1 big hdd nd transfer the data? airlinks are really old make sure u got the drivers nd the specs say it will only run on win 2000 or linix 2.6 not sure if thats the prob? |
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13th Apr 2009, 16:13
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 I have files on the Maxtor, pictures and such, that I would like to save/access. I am trying to transfer the data from the Maxtor to my current new PC hard drive that is big and will hold everything. |
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13th Apr 2009, 16:25
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could u just put the maxtor in the pc nd connect with ata serial?
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13th Apr 2009, 16:30
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Yeah, that would be my next step too.
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13th Apr 2009, 16:39
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Sounds like its cooked mate (no pun intended)
Only thing you havnt done is to plug it in internally then go into bios to see if its enabled, after that id say your only chance of recovering data is to go to a specialist
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13th Apr 2009, 17:06
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 I'll have to give that a go. Lesson learned. Ground your gas line so lightening can't catch your house on fire.Thanks guys. Was hopin' I missed something. |
