I am trying to connect a hard drive (as a slave) that is damaged in order to run some data recovery software on it. I haven't done this before so please excuse any stupidity. I connected the drive to the middle plug on the IDE cable (between the original drive and the motherboard) but when I start the computer nothing much happens. All I get is a message that the CD drives have been renumbered (from 2 and 3 to 3 and 4, so the new drive must be detected in some way) but then it says that there is no operating system found.
Could it be that the computer is trying to boot from the new drive instead of the original? Is there something other than the placement on the cable that controls this?
Thanks in advance.
Could it be that the computer is trying to boot from the new drive instead of the original? Is there something other than the placement on the cable that controls this?
Thanks in advance.