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Hello guys!

I have an old Fujitsu 40GB HDD that I'd like to recover data from. I bought a IDE to USB adapter from Amazon, plugged in the HDD aaaand... nothing.

Went to disk management, immediately got this post-89119-0-70372000-1414068901.png

 

clicked on OK, got this post-89119-0-15671700-1414068972.png

 

 

drive may contain important files. help pls ;-;

 

UPDATE: So I just realized that the HDD is from a 2005 iBook G4. Luckily, my PC also happens to be a Hackintosh, so I just booted into OSX, plugged in the HDD aaaand... still nothing.

 

Can't see the HDD listed anywhere except system info, where it only shows up as a generic mass storage device.

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Hello guys!

I have an old Fujitsu 40GB HDD that I'd like to recover data from. I bought a IDE to USB adapter from Amazon, plugged in the HDD aaaand... nothing.

Went to disk management, immediately got this attachicon.gifScreenshot (139).png

 

clicked on OK, got this attachicon.gifScreenshot (140).png

 

 

drive may contain important files. help pls ;-;

You have powered the drive right? 

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You have powered the drive right? 

 

 

Also check its geting enough power :)

 

It's a 2.5 inch drive. so it should be getting all the power from the USB port itself.

Also, I don't see any way to give it extra power.

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It's a 2.5 inch drive. so it should be getting all the power from the USB port itself.

Also, I don't see any way to give it extra power.

Scorpio-Blue-SATA.jpg

 

Yano the connector on the left at the back of the hard-drive 

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Scorpio-Blue-SATA.jpg

 

Yano the connector on the left at the back of the hard-drive 

 

thats sata... not IDE

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Scorpio-Blue-SATA.jpg

 

Yano the connector on the left at the back of the hard-drive 

Nope, no such connector can be seen by me :(

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its possible there's a problem with the usb driver. if you have another computer try with that, or try unplugging and trying different usb ports.

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thats sata... not IDE

SHAMEFUL DISPLAY, my bad! 

 

I have no clue then, is the disk spinning when you connect through usb? 

 

Can you link us with what your using to connect it? the adapter from amazon

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SHAMEFUL DISPLAY, my bad! 

 

I have no clue then, is the disk spinning when you connect through usb? 

 

Can you link us with what your using to connect it? the adapter from amazon

http://www.amazon.in/Technxt-USB-SATA-Adaptar-Cable/dp/B00KMQ8H3Y/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1414070142&sr=8-1&keywords=ide+to+usb

 

HDD is spinning, no unusual sounds.

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its possible there's a problem with the usb driver. if you have another computer try with that, or try unplugging and trying different usb ports.

tried with all ports, hub and direct. will try with my laptop now.

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This thread might help: 

 

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/258179-32-initialize-hard-drive-formatting

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See if there is any drivers for the adapter, shouldnt need any but somtimes its just one of those things.

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thats sata... not IDE

Don't they use the same power connectors anyway? 

 

sata-and-ide-hard-drives-1.jpg

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Not all sata drive have a molex connector. All mine don't.

 

I got 6 drives in my machine

 

2.5s and 3.5s

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See if there is any drivers for the adapter, shouldnt need any but somtimes its just one of those things.

nope.avi

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have you tryed it in your laptop?

 

how much did you pay for this adapter?

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UPDATE: So I just realized that the HDD is from a 2005 iBook G4. Luckily, my PC also happens to be a Hackintosh, so I just booted into OSX, plugged in the HDD aaaand... still nothing.

 

Can't see the HDD listed anywhere except system info, where it only shows up as a generic mass storage device.

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have you tryed it in your laptop?

 

how much did you pay for this adapter?

Will try when I can.

About Rs. 450, or about $7.30.

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boot in to linux live cd such as ubuntu

see ifs it mounts it if not run gparted to see what the drive is formatted in.

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boot in to linux live cd such as ubuntu

see ifs it mounts it if not run gparted to see what the drive is formatted in.

linux oooh fancy.

 

Will puppy linux or whatever the hell its called work?

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yeah just easyer to use ubuntu as its more user friendly but use what you like :).

as long as it has gparted which most of them do

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yeah just easyer to use ubuntu as its more user friendly but use what you like :).

as long as it has gparted which most of them do

fuckin linux isnt even recognizing it. doesnt even show up in g-motherfuckin-parted.

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In a linux terminal do as root "fdisk -l"

"Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table"

In GParted, it shows 4 partitions; a 31.50 KB unknown, a 119.50 MB unallocated, a 8.50 MB hfs+ with a boot flag and a 37.14 GB unknown.

drive has files of utmost importance.

halp and ill be forever thankful.

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