Need to slave old IBM dhaa-2405

[SeanAIX430]

I grabbed this out of an old laptop that died. I need some info on the drive. This is usually as easy as connecting the adapter to the drive and a secondary IDE cable in my machine and booting up and grabbing the data off the slaved drive. Problem is I can't get any PC to recognize the drive. The drive is powering up, but in the bios if I choose auto or User and put in the settings it never gets recognized. Any ideas? Thanks

 

[wolluf]

If the PC you're trying it in is rnning 2k/XP, try booting the main o/s even though bios isn't recognising disk - and see if it appears in disk management (or even better explorer). 2k/xp ignore the bios (will see a drive that's turned off in the bios) - so just wondering if they'll see your laptop drive.

 

[SeanAIX430]

Nope it doesn't show up in Disk management, this thing it ticking me off!

 

[wolluf]

I'd suggest the drive is dead then!

 

[micker377]

Some old drives can't be recognized by "auto". You have to read the parameters off the label on the drive, and put these in manually in BIOS setup.