Re: Recovering data from old hard drive
Nate Metheny <[email protected]>
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[email protected] wrote: > Thanks but I tried it both ways. First with my DVD drive disconnected > from the IDE cable and the HD set to master. Then with the DVD > reconnected and set to master, HD set to slave. Both ways it tried to > boot from the IDE drive. Hm, interesting. Did you try using secondary IDE and not primary? > > Eric, maybe I should buy an external usb HD enclosure. I have some > other old drives I want to look at too. Thanks for your offer and > thanks for the idea. > > Mike -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: > Nate Metheny <[email protected]> >> [email protected] wrote: >>> I want to copy my home directory from an old FC4 IDE hard drive. >>> The FC4 box won't boot so I put the hard drive in my Kubuntu >>> system. Now the Kubuntu box tries to boot the FC4 drive. Tried to >>> change the boot sequence in BIOS but it won't allow me to set the >>> SATA drive with Kubuntu first. This is an Intel D945GCcr >>> motherboard. Is there another parameter I need to change in BIOS >>> or is there something else I'm missing? >> Primary IDE Master will always boot first, as SATA is an auxiliary >> controller. >> >> Jumper the drive to slave and try again. >> -- .==== === -- - -- - - - - - ---. | Nate Metheny IT Group Leader | | Santa Fe Institute office 505.946.2730 | | cell 505.795.3347 fax 505.982.0565 | | http://www.santafe.edu [email protected] | `--- - -- - - -- - = == ===' _______________________________________________ NMLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.b9.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nmlug