Which external drive reader will work with this 2006 hard drive?

bonkers

Hi all

Found this old hard drive and want to access it - https://www.amazon.com/Maxtor-MaXLine-250GB-7200RPM-Drive/dp/B000Y8I8PW

Wonder would something like this do it? - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sabrent-External-Lay-Flat-Docking-Station/dp/B00LS5NFQ2/ref=asc_df_B00LS5NFQ2/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=310819177578&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10080221607665356364&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1007850&hvtargid=pla-365069372813&th=1

cheers

Spear

That should work. It's just an old fashioned SATA 3.5 inch, nothing exotic there.

Spear

There are other cheaper options, such as the simpler SATA to USB cable adapters. Do you need regular/constant access to the drive?

And I presume you don't have a desktop you could stick it in?

bonkers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120093834#Comment_120093834

Went with the one above in the end but unfortunately the drive aint showing for me, despite it sounding like its running fine

bonkers

Actually a Disk 1 shows up in disk management that is near the 250gb this drive is, it disappears when i turn off the hard drive reader thing.

States its healthy and in good conditon but cant find it anywhere else

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smuggler.ie

It just doesnt have letter assigned

smuggler.ie

Right click on 228.32 GB Healthy (....) , then "Change Drive letter....", then "Add", select one available (not A , B )

bonkers

yea wont give me that option either delete volume or convert to dynamic disc?

smuggler.ie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120112342#Comment_120112342

Its not on "Disk 1" you clicking aren't you , the actual partition "228.32GB ......", because there is no option to "convert..." in this menu, there is if you do on disk.

smuggler.ie

You could try...

run CMD or powershell in Admin mode:

type commands and hit Enter after each:

diskpart

List disk

select disk 1 # disk number that correspond to 250GB (careful here !, you need select right disk)

list part

select partition 5 # here you select partition number that correspond to size 228.32GB

assign letter=g

Check your disk manager and/or file explorer after this - disk should appear under letter G

bonkers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120112771#Comment_120112771

Thanks for all the advice by the way.

Had tried the partitions and right clicking them earlier and no joy, same with cmd as after i follow your reccomendations i get "that arguments specified for this command are not valied. for more info on the command type: help assign

tried it also on the disk 1 and assign letter-g - same as above.

smuggler.ie

arguments specified for this command are not valid

double check, try different letter:

assign=t

replicating error - in my case letter T is given to other drive already

smuggler.ie

option to try:

Create folder on your C:\ drive , call it "250Drive", so path to it is "C:\250Drive" (in my case is drive R:\)

then in CMD:

diskpart

list volume

select volume 5 #volume number corresponding to 250GB drive

assign mount="C:\250Drive"

see if this makes it accessible in that folder, folder should change to link icon

bonkers

Unfortunately this aint working.

Wont allow me assign on a disk or a partition, asks me to choose a volume and the only volumes that show up are from the main computer disk 0 so not what i need

only other thing i can find that might point to the issue is this within properties/events of the disk drive in disk management?

Device settings for SCSI\Disk&Ven_SABRENT&Prod_\6&cc60372&0&000000 were not migrated from previous OS installation due to partial or ambiguous device match.

L1011

Try a Linux boot usb and avoid Windows arcane disk assignment entirely.

The disk may be corrupt, though

smuggler.ie

Oh well. looks like third party tools and/or independent OS needed.

You should take copy of raw disk, then "play" with copy if you have value on that disk.

niallb

Where did the disk come from?

What are you expecting to find on it?

If it was in a DVR or a games console you're unlikely to read it. If it was a Mac or something obscure a Linux bootable disk will likely read it.

bonkers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120113345#Comment_120113345

Came from a dell desktop from about 2007

It has mp3s from the 90s on it - hopefully

dontmindme

Are you saying when you enter 'list disk' in DiskPart, this disk is not listed?

niallb

If the disk came from a Dell desktop, the format is not likely to be the problem.

When you get the interface right you should be able to see it.

Disks from that time need a fair bit of power.

The USB caddy you've linked to above should provide plenty power though. Is that the exact model you're using?

If it is that model, does whatever you're plugging it into also support UASP SCSI connections?

If it's a blue USB 3.0 port on a Windows 10 computer it probably will, otherwise it might not!

smuggler.ie

partition layout/size (posted earlier, if it was actual) does not seam resemble Windows

Spear

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120115949#Comment_120115949

It came from a Dell, and they tend to have a diagnostics partition, which may explain the over complex partition layout.

smuggler.ie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120116204#Comment_120116204

Acknowledged, but would i be wrong assuming even Dell would put their part to OS drive , unlikely on storage . Windows (OS) on its own would have their system partitions (sized in MB, not GB), hense - not resembling.

Anyway, for OP to confirm..

Capt'n Midnight

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120114551#Comment_120114551

You could try to bypass partitions and such by using https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec PhotoRec ignores the file system; this way it works even if the file system is severely damaged.

bonkers

hmm, this actually might have been more recently used in a synology diskstation 212j or at least attempted to be used.

downloaded photorec and it shows this - might jsut take the whole thing into town tomorrow and drop into a disk recovery place

Capt'n Midnight

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120121816#Comment_120121816

RAID may be a showstopper. If it's RAID 0 then the 0 refers to the exact number of files you can recover without having the other disk. :(

If it's RAID 1 then both drives are the same (mirror) and photorec should be able to find and copy mp3's to a different drive but it doesn't look for filenames.

http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html - this should allow you to assign a drive letter in windows if the drives used EXT3 or you can make a bootable Linux USB key https://puppylinux-woof-ce.github.io/ is basic but it's only 300MB

Spear

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120121816#Comment_120121816

That changes a lot of things then. Was the RAID set fully initialised? Or was it just inserted and you didn't get anywhere with it? Can you remember what steps were taken when it was in the NAS?