I've got this old 20gb Seagate from my win98 'puter. I sorted out the pins and made it a slave drive and the plugged it into the internal slave port on my Windows XP (SP3) computer. The CMOS says it's fine and the HDD is there. Then I go to my desktop and check out My Computer, sweet, my slave is there. Then I browse through the HDD and everything is cool. I'll move a small file over and it works
Then suddenly I'll get an error about the source and the slave drive will totally disapear. Not in my computer and not in my CMOS at boot up. But if I restart the computer again it's there on the desktop, it works fine for about 30-60 seconds and then vanishes as if it was never there.
The disc itself is fine, it's still whirring along as if nothing has happened. I tried doing a few things in the small window of opportunity I get when I boot up, I tried giving it a new drive letter (O: and Z: and X:) but that didn't change anything. I tried running windows default disc error checker but it said it was clean.
So I updated my BIOS to the latest build, I checked every single little update I might of missed and sorted them all out. But the problem still remains. HDD is there- and then suddenly not!
The reason why I want to use it is to grab about 1gb of documents from it. But I can't due to the constant vanishing nature of it. Anyone have any tips for this? Aside from trying a new IDE cable I'm at my wits end. At the moment I've ordered an IDE to USB connector. I'll try that out, but if anyone has any tips please leave me a message.
