I'm trying to get my old files off of an old Hard-disk. Old PC is XP newer PC is Vista. I removed the Hardisk from the OLD computer. I bought a USB to SATA/IDE cable. When I plug in the Hard-disk via USB, I hear the confirmation tone that you hear everytime you plug in a USB. I see a "ST340082 0AS SCSI Disk Device" in the "Safely remove hardware" icon in the tray. but I do not see the Drive. I can't really afford an External Hard drive. But I will eventually if I have to. Cna anyone help me please.
posted by Student of Man on Oct 27, 2009 - 12 answers

Which HTML/CSS/JS IDE do I want? [more inside]
posted by drjimmy11 on Oct 27, 2009 - 16 answers

Trying to get a computer to recognize a dvd rom drive. But there's a snag. [more inside]
posted by tylerfulltilt on Jun 27, 2009 - 6 answers

Recommendations on a new IDE to remotely edit PHP files? [more inside]
posted by gchucky on May 27, 2009 - 6 answers

Hard drive issues: Frequently when I attempt to open a folder on my Windows Vista partition I will have to wait 5 seconds or so for the drive to spin up (I hear it). Is there some way I can fix my cache or otherwise set up the drive so that it doesn't need to spin up every time I access files on my root drive? [more inside]
posted by Aanidaani on Nov 22, 2008 - 3 answers

Visual Studio for the confused: I've inherited a C#/ASPX Net 1.1 application from what appears to have been some fairly low-skill software developers. The language, systems environment, and cleaning up the software itself aren't problems, but what the hell am I supposed to do with all this IDE stuff? I need learning resources. [more inside]
posted by majick on Sep 24, 2008 - 11 answers

Highly technical hard drive filter: My hard drive failed. Came home, and PC was sitting at the "where's my hard drive" BIOS screen, to my great horror. [more inside]
posted by gjc on Apr 27, 2008 - 9 answers

Does anyone know good IDE Raid enclosures? I currently own two 250 gig IDE hard drives and want to set them up in a single RAID enclosure. I have been looking around for a while but can only find SATA raid enclosures. [more inside]
posted by chunking express on Apr 8, 2008 - 7 answers

Would IDE HDD and SATA DVD drives confuse each other on boot up? How do I tell if my dvd drive is mucked up? [more inside]
posted by Jhoosier on Feb 26, 2008 - 4 answers

NoIWillNotFixYourComputerFilter: I've got a 500 gig that won't show up in Windows XP. Help! [more inside]
posted by Lockeownzj00 on Jan 29, 2008 - 7 answers

Computer question: Last week I posted this question trying to replace a hard drive. Now I have a new problem... the hard drive uses a connector type that I've never seen before and it doesn't agree with what Wikipedia shows. [more inside]
posted by crapmatic on Jan 15, 2008 - 8 answers

What's a good product for reading old IDE and EIDE drives through USB? [more inside]
posted by king walnut on Jan 8, 2008 - 15 answers

My new HD enclosure gets really hot. Should I worry? [more inside]
posted by penciltopper on Dec 10, 2007 - 7 answers

How do I connect my NTFS hard drive to my new mac? [more inside]
posted by smithmac_99 on Sep 26, 2007 - 5 answers

What do I need to know about hard drive enclosures? My computer (PC) died this morning and I want to pull out the 2 hard drives and use them as external drives for my new Mac. I don't know if they're FAT32 or NTFS. I don't know if they're IDE or SATA. How do I find out? Do I need to? A little background on my old PC. It was one of the first P4 3.0 PCs with hyperthreading technology. I've had it for ~4 years
posted by smithmac_99 on Aug 28, 2007 - 13 answers

Hard Drive Filter: Someone explain to me how SATA and AHCI work. [more inside]
posted by lou on Aug 28, 2007 - 10 answers

What kind of a converter do I need to backup my laptop hard drive? [more inside]
posted by Pontius Pilate on Jun 3, 2007 - 6 answers

What coding habits and working methodologies help you maximize productivity while reducing angst? [more inside]
posted by treepour on Apr 13, 2007 - 22 answers

Does anyone know a UK supplier for one of these little gadgets?
posted by ascullion on Mar 24, 2007 - 7 answers

How can I plug an IDE hard drive into a compact flash slot? [more inside]
posted by popcassady on Mar 14, 2007 - 7 answers

Rcodetools, possibly in conjunction with Icicles, seems like it should be the bee's knees for doing Ruby code completion in Emacs. I need help getting it to actually work. [more inside]
posted by dmd on Mar 7, 2007 - 2 answers

Why won't my BIOS recognize a SATA drive? [more inside]
posted by malaprohibita on Dec 15, 2006 - 8 answers

Help! I added an internal IDE hard drive to my late-model Dell desktop, and accessing it pins my processor! [more inside]
posted by perissodactyl on Oct 15, 2006 - 4 answers

Is there such a thing as an IDE to SATA converter? [more inside]
posted by bkudria on Aug 10, 2006 - 9 answers

Attempting to plug my old hard drive into an enclosure, but I don't know what this port is or how it connects. Pictures inside. [more inside]
posted by sian on Jun 23, 2006 - 5 answers

Having problem with S.M.A.R.T data collection apps with IDE drives on a PCI to IDE card. [more inside]
posted by flyby22 on Jun 22, 2006 - 5 answers

An internal serial ATA (SATA) 3.5" hard drive pulled from an iMac G5 (the iMac is not accessible). A FireWire IDE enclosure. I live in Brooklyn and want some place open tonight (magically) or early tomorrow to find either a USB2 adapter for the SATA drive, a cheap USB2/FireWire enclosure, or an SATA>IDE adapter so I can use my current enclosure. (Give me any ideas that don't involve J&R.) Bonus points for Brooklyn - other boroughs are cool too, or any of these devices on loan from someone extremely generous would also be awesome!
posted by thejoshu on May 23, 2006 - 3 answers

I'm looking for a simple C IDE. [more inside]
posted by mr.dan on Jan 20, 2006 - 12 answers

I'd like to upgrade my 4 year old Dell Dimension 8200 computer, while hopefully getting components that I could use later, should I decide to build a whole new system in a few months. Sadly, I know nearly nothing about computer hardware. [more inside]
posted by Elpoca on Jan 5, 2006 - 23 answers

What's your favorite XML IDE? I'm looking for something that will show me the results of XPATH queries on the fly and transform XML via a stylesheet inside the tool. [more inside]
posted by yerfatma on Dec 29, 2005 - 11 answers

Can I add more than just four IDE devices to my PC? [more inside]
posted by twine42 on Sep 11, 2005 - 11 answers

I'm learning Java. Which IDE should I use? [more inside]
posted by bingo on Jul 30, 2005 - 33 answers

Anyone here doing Mono Development on Windows? Or other platforms? What's your development environment? General advice for learning the platform? [more inside]
posted by namespan on Feb 23, 2005 - 6 answers

IDE hard drive conundrum: "Error loading OS" (more inside) [more inside]
posted by luser on Jul 6, 2004 - 13 answers

Programming Languages. I've always done my "fun" programming using Delphi, but have decided that it's time to go open source. What languages should I be looking at? (My feature list is inside) [more inside]
posted by seanyboy on Feb 17, 2004 - 10 answers

After using Homesite to edit PHP for the last few years I'm seriously thinking about upgrading to a more functional IDE. I'll use something else for C++ and Java (which I'm not even doing right now), so I really only need this for PHP development. The two that seem to jump out are Zend Studio and NuSphere's PHPEd. Has anyone used these? I'll try the free demos of each, but since I'm potentially spending $200+ I'd like to get some feedback from actual users. Or is there something better out there that I haven't run into?
posted by y6y6y6 on Dec 31, 2003 - 10 answers