IDE HD Not Recognized

[Butters]

I have a 40GB HD that I pulled out of my old PC which has tons of stuff on it (photos mostly) which I need back.

It worked fine on my old PC, I had it internally.

I have an IDE to USB 2.0 cable and it won't reconize the HD, a baloon pops up and says it's not regonized and it won't mount the drive.

I'v used this HD with an IDE to USB cable before with no problems.

Any suggestions?

[CriTiCeRz]

Go to Control Panel -> System -> Hardware -> Device Manager

Check if there is any icon there with a little ! sign. If there is, open its properties and then click on Reinstall drivers. Try that out, fixes most of my USB problems.

[Butters]

Yeah already tried reinstalling drivers, didn't work.

[hybrid101]

tried an enclosure or something yet?

[t0mm0]

It wont pick up on a USB cable unless the Master/slave pin jumper is set as advised by the cable manual (Usually set to master w/o slave).

[Butters]

Yeah thought it might have been that, how do I set it as master?

I got a little blue jumper thing from my motherboard and put it in 2 of the pins but it still won't pick up the HD. Same problem as before.

[Butters]

Oh wait, did it! Had the jumper set wrong.

Yay! Thanks for the help :)

Phew, thought i'd lost all my photos there!

[t0mm0]

S'all good