Slaved ATA drive issues

[gramsey438]

I have had a number of issues trying to view a slaved ata C drive on my main home pc.

I am using a usb type h/drive docker to be able to interchange drives as and when required. However if I insert a system drive from another pc the local o/s (XP Pro) does not register the drives existence, I hear the familiar notification tone that a new piece of h/ware has been attached but the drive does not appear in file explorer or within the disk management side of device manager ?

I suspect it must be a similar issue to that experienced with the old IDE drives where both may be set as masters but with ATA drives you do not get the old style jumpers to switch the drive to a cable select or slave configuration.

Is there a way of getting xp to treat these drives as slaves and ignore the fact that they are a bootable system drives ? The main reason for the query is that I have to rebuild a dell laptop with a corrupt o/s and I would like to grab all the h/ware drivers from the drive before reimaging the drive, and as many people will prob know the dell support site is a very slow and tedious process when compared to Lenovo for instance.

[AlBags]

What does Disk Management (under Administrative Tools) actually say?
Does it show anything?
Foreign disk maybe?

[AlBags]

I take it you have no SATA connector anywhere?

[deggers316]

i had the same prob my motherboard sata plugs both broke so i got a pci sata adaptor this stops them being visable in "c" and also you cant load up a windows os on them due to that but otherwise they will show up if you tweak your bios ,but as bois are not all the same you will have to search google for help on this