Recovering data off SATA drive

[FlatLine84]

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]

on your working workstation what OS are you running?

 

[delussional77]

try to find it using testdisk

worked for me last night

 

[FlatLine84]

My workstation is running XP pro.

 

[nitrobass24]

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]

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

If your disk detects but you can't read anything from it, I would suggest using GetDataBack NTFS/FAT