G'day to all, I recently bought a new PC with win 10 on board. I now find that I want to retrieve some data from my old PC which is unserviceable.
I purchased a 22 pin sata to usb cable. When plugged in I find the Device manager will not find this new drive. The led's on the cable light up but the drive is not running. The old HDD is a 3.5' unit which ran on win 7. The old drive is a Samsung HD502HJ/b (part No.) and is in working condition. I am wondering if it requires a driver of its own?
Or something a more diverse problem like a usb 2.0 or 3.0 conflict, maybe. I am quite elderly and would appreciate any help from a kind person willing to help. Thanking you in anticipation, MaurieT.
Welcome to the Ten Forums! As I understand you bought a USB to Sate type cable that lights up but the drive doesn't do anything?
Did you connect any power cable like the 12v 15pin Sata power connector from an external power supply for example? If you only connected a data conversion cable the drive itself isn't powered up in order to be detected properly. You have two options for seeing this solved quickly.
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You can either buy a regular self contained external enclosure powered directly by usb or having a separate ac adapter or see the drive installed internally on the new machine where you then simply connect a data cable you added in along with using one of the connectors from the power supply. Once the drive is receiving power your next step will be to right click on the Start button to select the 'Disk Management' option. Once the screen for that finishes loading up you go upto the menu bar and click on the 'Actions' optoin to select the 'rescan disks' if not finding the new volume displayed. This will refresh the total number of drives shown where you then need to see the new drive initialized. You may have to click on the square block at the left side next to the drive's volume while simply right clicking on it to use the 'Change drive letter' option should be enough for that. Since optical drives usually take up the D and E drive letters and second OS drives like F and G you can easily assign H often used by flash drives or virtual cd rom drives, J or K are good since those are rarely taken! Boevoj ustav suhoputnih vojsk chastj 1. I agree this most likely is a problem with power supply.
If the disc as you say is not spinning up, then Windows most likely does not identify it. I don't know, what type of cable you bought exactly - however, some case manufacturers solve this problem by selling their cases with a Y-cable: One connection for the drive on the one end and two connections for two USB ports on the other. Should the drive not get enough power to spin up, if you connect one of the USB ports, then you also connect the second. Computer Type: PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number: custom built OS: windows 10 CPU: Intel i7 2600k 3.4ghz Motherboard: asus p867 evo Memory: 20gb corsair ddr3 Graphics Card: nvidia geforce gt 430 Sound Card: Sound blaster z sound card Monitor(s) Displays: dell 21' flat panel Keyboard: logitech mk210(I believe) Mouse: logitech mk wireless PSU: corsair 750 watt Case: Inwin Dragon Rider Cooling: 6 case supplied fans Hard Drives: WD 4tb and 240gb solid state drive. Internet Speed: up to 300mb/s download Browser: mozilla firefox Antivirus: avg Other Info: Logitech 1000 watt 5.1 surround audio; Officejet pro 8610 all in one. Logiteh s7500 webcam.