Having a little trouble with this. I bought a new computer, making the switch to 64-bit and SATA- complete upgrade from what I’ve been using for the last 5 years.
I’m trying to mount the old IDE drive so I can copy pics and documents to the new drive. I can’t seem to find the drive, nor mount it. The old system has issues with the motherboard, so I don’t trust it enough to burn everything to CD/DVD in order to transfer it- heck, it only intermittently recognizes the IDE controller on the old board.
The new drive is SATA2, and I’ve upgraded from openSuSE 10.3 to 11.0, from 32-bit to 64, etc. Everything in the new system is bigger, faster, and better.
If it wasn’t pictures of my 3-year old daughter, and a few short stories that I don’t have stored anywhere else, I wouldn’t bother. Unfortunately, I don’t want to lose any of it.
Hi
This may not be an option for you, but I brought a all-in-one IDE 40/44
pin and SATA to USB dongle. I came with an external power supply for
IDE/SATA drives. It works great, except for 2.5" drives I run it via an
external USB hub for power to the drive rather than the notebook USB.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.18-0.1-default
up 3:11, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.07, 0.01
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 177.80
What have you tried? Have you enabled the IDE interface in the BIOS? Is the drive seen by the BIOS at bootup (often displays the drive id string)? What have you tried in mounting it? Did you go to YaST Disk Partitioner to mount it?
copperlion schrieb:
> Having a little trouble with this. I bought a new computer, making the
> switch to 64-bit and SATA- complete upgrade from what I’ve been using
> for the last 5 years.
> I’m trying to mount the old IDE drive so I can copy pics and documents
> to the new drive. I can’t seem to find the drive, nor mount it. …]
> Recommendations?
You give little information about what you did.
Essential questions:
What openSUSE version and kernel version?
What motherboard?
How did you connect the old IDE drive?
Where did you look for it (and not find it)?
Depending on the answers, you might want to:
look in /var/log/boot.msg for signs of the system recognizing
(a) the IDE interface
(b) the drive
run the YaST partitioning tool and see whether the IDE drive shows
up in the list of devices
try finding it from the command line with the command “fdisk -l”
for each of the candidate device files /dev/hda, hdb, hdc, sdb, sdc …
> Having a little trouble with this. I bought a new computer, making the
> switch to 64-bit and SATA- complete upgrade from what I’ve been using
> for the last 5 years.
> I’m trying to mount the old IDE drive so I can copy pics and documents
> to the new drive. I can’t seem to find the drive, nor mount it. The old
> system has issues with the motherboard, so I don’t trust it enough to
> burn everything to CD/DVD in order to transfer it- heck, it only
> intermittently recognizes the IDE controller on the old board.
> The new drive is SATA2, and I’ve upgraded from openSuSE 10.3 to 11.0,
> from 32-bit to 64, etc. Everything in the new system is bigger, faster,
> and better.
> If it wasn’t pictures of my 3-year old daughter, and a few short
> stories that I don’t have stored anywhere else, I wouldn’t bother.
> Unfortunately, I don’t want to lose any of it.
It’s allready being recoomended, but I sencond the advise: go to USB.
Just find a box with an ide drive in it, replace it with yours and you’re
off. Maybe a friend can len you his/hers?
As ken_yap suggested I will check the bios if the IDE interface is enabled. Your machine came with just the SATA and it is very possible that the factory setting defaults to a disabled IDE.
I wasn’t sure about using the partitioner to mount the drive- I didn’t really think about it, since I’ve only ever used it for making changes to a partition. Surprising that in 6 years, I’ve never really had to think about how to mount a drive. I’ve had trouble before with mounting CDs and DVDs, but never a hard drive.
I guess I figured it was an issue with SATA and IDE, but the DVD drive is IDE and works just fine.
Well, I used the partitioner tool in YaST, transferred my files, wiped the drive and prepped the old system for a friend of mine. He’ll be getting a different mobo for it, and my athlon XP 2200+ will be a serious upgrade from his slot-A type 600MHz AMD processor.