Problem booting old drives

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puretaity Posts 2 Registration date Tuesday November 6, 2012 Status Member Last seen November 6, 2012 - Nov 6, 2012 at 01:14 PM
puretaity Posts 2 Registration date Tuesday November 6, 2012 Status Member Last seen November 6, 2012 - Nov 6, 2012 at 04:22 PM

Hello,
i have been running a hitachi 1TB drive for some time now and found some old drives that i used to use and wanted see if there was any infomation on them thaat i may have lst. so i plugged in the first drive and drive fires up but the computer dousent reconise it what so ever not at boot up or in my computer. i tred the same thing with all the drives and nothjing happen. i have 2 sata drives and 2 IDE is there a way of getting them going and maybe a software that can recover some of the data?

thanks for any advice given.

PS
the drives are a Western Digital, Seagate and hitachi

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xpcman Posts 19528 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 1,824
Nov 6, 2012 at 02:11 PM

Are you sure that both the data and power cables are connected?

puretaity Posts 2 Registration date Tuesday November 6, 2012 Status Member Last seen November 6, 2012
Nov 6, 2012 at 04:22 PM

yeah everything is conected corectly ive even tried different cables different sockeds ECT..

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