Posted: 8/17/2013 5:00:26 PM EDT
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I'm perplexed, so perhaps someone can help me a bit. I am trying to consolidate the data stored on a bunch of old HDD's.
I have a PC* booting up from a single SATA drive into Windows7 (64 bit). I have been able to connect a second SATA drive and transfer its contents onto a mass storage drive. I repeated this process for eight SATA drives, one at a time. When I try to do this with a PATA drive connected, the machine won't boot - it gets to the Windows splash screen and stalls. It's almost as if the machine is hard-wired to boot from the PATA drive if one is present. I have the jumper on "Cable Select" position and I have the HDD connected to the "Slave" position on the cable. I have tried several different BIOS SETUP approaches, including SATA-only, PATA-only and SATA+PATA. No option results in a successful boot up. What gives? Help me Obi-Wan, you're my only hope. * Mobo is ASUS P5W DH Deluxe |
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Not sure if someone will have an answer for you. If you get to the Windows splash screen, it sounds like it's booting off of the SATA drive. Have no idea why it might me hanging up at that point.
Check here and see if the information helps. Appears to be a problem with Windows 7 recognizing IDE drives. If nobody comes up with an answer, worst case scenario, you can pick up a SATA/IDE adapter, like this one. I've had mine for a couple of years now, and it's come in handy a number of times. Has worked fine with both SATA and IDE drives. Far easier than popping the case open, and connecting that way. |
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My "problem" is described almost perfectly in that link, except I can't get it to recognize any IDE drives (the author got one). I'll check my registry tomorrow and consider the edits proposed.
I wasted the better part of a day trying to get this to work. That interface/converter gizmo looks like that should do the trick. I don't forsee it having a permanent pace in my machine but if it solves this problem, it would have paid for itself. Right now, the case is open and the power and data cables are hanging out - I've already done 8 SATA drives. I have a small "production line", if only I can get the machine to recognize/accept the IDE (PATA) drives. |
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Check here and see if the information helps. Appears to be a problem with Windows 7 recognizing IDE drives. I checked my Registry, the Upper and Lower Filters (as described at link) were not a problem. I also checked the Registry to ensure the IDE drives were "enabled". They were, so that's not the problem, either. If nobody comes up with an answer, worst case scenario, you can pick up a SATA/IDE adapter, like this one. I've had mine for a couple of years now, and it's come in handy a number of times. Has worked fine with both SATA and IDE drives. Far easier than popping the case open, and connecting that way. I just ordered the adapter you linked. Thanks for that. I hope it works but no big loss if it doesn't. Heh heh! The case is already open and the wiring "guts" are hanging out. |
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If nobody comes up with an answer, worst case scenario, you can pick up a SATA/IDE adapter, like this one. I've had mine for a couple of years now, and it's come in handy a number of times. Has worked fine with both SATA and IDE drives. Far easier than popping the case open, and connecting that way. I ordered one of these adapters from Newegg and selected their cheapest shipping option (supposed to be 5-7 days for delivery). It showed up at the house within 24 hours. 
I plugged it in and it worked like a charm! 
It took a few days to sort thru all the old data files, videos and emails, etc. I've processed several TB of HDD's (videos use an amazing amount of space). But now, it is all recovered. One thing I noticed during this exercise but had not really grasped until now - PATA is GONE! I have ELEVEN PATA drives sitting here on the desk. The only way I can effectively use them is to put them in the oldest computer and make a RAID array from them. The old machine does have a IDE RAID controller. PATA/IDE is gone, gone, gone! Are these drives now just so much trash? |
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Probably has to do with IDE/AHCI mode in the bios or HDD priority in the bios. EIther way you could make things a lot easier by doing it over USB. If speed is an issue go USB3 wuth everything. I played the IDE AHCI game (both options tried). Neither worked. I bought the USB adapter and, as you said, it got a LOT easier. |
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I have migrated pata drives from every machine I have owned till now.
It is much harder to find new mb with pata on them, but not impossible. usually they only have 1 for a floppy drive and 1 for legacy drives. The last computer I built for someone, I did have to force them to upgrade hd due to lack of pata in their price range. but we are talking about building a 200 dollar box. so yeah, 11 are probably more than anything you want to buy right now is worth. I do have external drive enclosures that still use pata, and I keep a few 500 gb drives for that if I need it. but 1 tb wd blacks are 100 bucks each. and if you aren't worried about loss of data, samsung has some 2 or 3 tb drives for under 100 bucks when new egg has a sale. or hitachi or some other brands. memory/storage is cheap again. even ssd's are coming down significantly. so I am not sure it is necessary to horde a bunch of ide drives. |
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Glad to hear that the adapter worked for you. It's a handy tool to have around when you have to deal with extra drives if you just need to grab some files.
Far easier than buying an enclosure, opening it up, putting in the hard drive, closing the enclosure, get the data, and then reversing the steps. |
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I found a use for one of the PATA drives.
I installed XP Pro on the drive. I am now able to use all my old applications which are not W7 compatible. These applications are not being upgraded to W7, unless you consider re-purchasing a new version. I use either the XP HDD or the W7 HDD before I boot the machine. Even then, some of the applications are linked with external hardware such as a video camera, scanner, etc. These hardware items are not being supported with new drivers and were all useless without W7 drivers. Using an old drive to make this PC an XP machine saved me a bunch of money. |
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Quoted: I found a use for one of the PATA drives. I installed XP Pro on the drive. I am now able to use all my old applications which are not W7 compatible. These applications are not being upgraded to W7, unless you consider re-purchasing a new version. I use either the XP HDD or the W7 HDD before I boot the machine. Even then, some of the applications are linked with external hardware such as a video camera, scanner, etc. These hardware items are not being supported with new drivers and were all useless without W7 drivers. Using an old drive to make this PC an XP machine saved me a bunch of money. |