15 May
2014
15 May
'14
10:19 a.m.
On 06/30/2014 09:05 AM, Jerome H. Fine wrote:
The system that I have to work with is a Windows XP
with SATA
drives, but also with an IDE interface which supported a DVD drive
with a standard 40 pin cable, but the DVD drive is no longer in use.
While it probably does not matter, on this Windows XP system,
all of the partitions on all of the SATA drives are also FAT32.
I have access to Partition Magic to be able to activate and name
the partitions on the old IDE ATA 100 hard drive.
Is it likely that I can just attach the old IDE ATA 100 drive to the
IDE cable on the Windows XP system and access the files I want
to copy from one of the partitions? Alternatively, do I need to use
the DOUBLED 40 pin cable used with the old ATA 100 hard drive
when it was used in the Windows 98SE system?
Stick with the 80-conductor cable. While a 40 conductor cable is
supposed to be tolerated by UDMA-capable controllers, I've run into at
least two situations where the driver insisted on using UDMA over a 40
conductor cable, with the resulting data loss errors.
One fly in the ointment may be that your subject machine may well try to
boot from the FAT32 drive in preference to your SATA drives, unless your
BIOS setup allows for selective booting (many do, using F12 as a way of
getting a boot device menu).
Personally, I'd boot up my favorite flavor of Linux from a Live CD and
then mount the IDE drive as read-only partitions. That way, there's no
chance you'll accidentally write on it. AFAIK, most common Linux
distros understand most flavors of Microsoft file systems, including FAT32.
FWIW,
Chuck