Moving Data HDD to New Computer

[mancalledhero]

Hey guys,

 

I am trying to install my old data drive from a previous computer to my new one. The is drive contains only movies and music; Windows is not installed on this drive. I was thinking simply installing it into the new computer was all I needed to do. After booting up, I noticed that it started installing device drivers for "ATA Channel 2." I checked disk management, but I did not see the drive there. Then I went into BIOS and noticed under SATA configuration that it was not there either. Anyone know what could be the issue? Both machines are Windows 7 if that matters. Any help is greatly appreciated. If more information is needed, I will add it.

 

Thanks!

[Leonard]

@mancalledhero

 

It sounds like you hooked up this drive in question as a master, meaning a boot drive, and no a slave, meaning just a secondary drive and device drivers are not installed to support the HDD hence the generic ATA Channel a drivers being installed. 

 

I would recommend you hook the HDD you are trying to get the "data" from as a slave and just copy what ever data you want to the OS drive via the SATA connection or you can connect the HDD through USB and you can do that with a USB adapter for what ever HDD connection you have, be it SATA, ATA, IDE. adapter

 

Next time you post a topic for help you might want to put relative system specifications if you know them.

[mancalledhero]

@mancalledhero

 

It sounds like you hooked up this drive in question as a master, meaning a boot drive, and no a slave, meaning just a secondary drive and device drivers are not installed to support the HDD hence the generic ATA Channel a drivers being installed. 

 

I would recommend you hook the HDD you are trying to get the "data" from as a slave and just copy what ever data you want to the OS drive via the SATA connection or you can connect the HDD through USB and you can do that with a USB adapter for what ever HDD connection you have, be it SATA, ATA, IDE. adapter

 

Next time you post a topic for help you might want to put relative system specifications if you know them.

 

I am trying not to have to copy and paste data if possible because ultimately, this drive is staying in the new pc. I thought slave and master were only relevant to the older HDDs. The drive in question is Seagate ST3000DM001. 

 

Specs are as follows:

 

CORSAIR CX series CX500

Gigabyte GA-B85-HD3

Intel Pentium G3258

G.SKILL Ripjaws 8GB

ASUS STRIX-GTX960

Crucial MX100 CT256MX100SSD1

Edited March 21, 2015 by mancalledhero

[Leonard]

I am trying not to have to copy and paste data if possible because ultimately, this drive is staying in the new pc. I thought slave and master were only relevant to the older HDDs. The drive in question is Seagate ST3000DM001. 

 

Specs are as follows:

 

CORSAIR CX series CX500

Gigabyte GA-B85-HD3

Intel Pentium G3258

G.SKILL Ripjaws 8GB

ASUS STRIX-GTX960

Crucial MX100 CT256MX100SSD1

Master and slave is just the older way of saying boot disk and backup disk. If you don't just want to copy data then you will need to make am .iso of the HDD in question and then on the other drive. Yon can also just clone the HDD to another.

 

I fear the problem maybe the drivers are missing or corrupted, or the HDD maybe formatted in like FAT32 or something.