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FlatLine84
06-24-2008, 03:29 PM
I'm having an issue slaving a SATA drive on my machine to recover data off of a drive. The computer I'm working on is running 2K pro, and is BSOD on boot. So I thought I could pop the drive into my workstation on SATA and it would show up as a second drive like with IDE, but nothing came up.... It didn't show up at all.... Could the drive be that bad?
nitrobass24
06-24-2008, 03:55 PM
on your working workstation what OS are you running?
delussional77
06-25-2008, 09:00 AM
try to find it using testdisk

worked for me last night
FlatLine84
06-25-2008, 11:34 AM
My workstation is running XP pro.
nitrobass24
06-25-2008, 11:43 AM
For starter make sure the SATA port is enabled in the bios
sometimes on XP you need to go to disk manager and bring the disk online
Morazl
06-25-2008, 12:06 PM
on XP you need to go to disk manager and bring the disk online

Yes, I have found this to be an issue too, also with Server 2008.
It's located in: Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Disk Management
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y167/morazl/asdasflek/diskmanagement.png

If your disk detects but you can't read anything from it, I would suggest using GetDataBack NTFS/FAT (http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm)