Haswell Based Build - SSD, PS, Suggestions

[BigBarney]

Being that small, it could be old enough to be a PATA drive with a bridge integrated. Some of those don't like being run in anything but legacy/IDE mode. If you can set some of your ports to a different operational mode, you might try that. If not, just pull the data off with another computer, and let the drive go.

That is my end goal, but I don't exactly have a computer anywhere just lying around that I can utilize to do this.

I can set the SATA controller to IDE mode, but when I do that, it sets all of them to IDE mode and makes a lot of things look all wonky within the BIOS.

I wonder if i could re-assemble the old rig on/in something, and then just transfer the 200gb of stuff via 32gb thumb drive, until I have it all... ugh, that's going to suck if i have to do it that way

 

[mfenn]

Windows should be OK with switching to IDE mode after being installed in AHCI mode. It's the other way around that causes issues.

 

[BigBarney]

Windows should be OK with switching to IDE mode after being installed in AHCI mode. It's the other way around that causes issues.

Eh,

I just threw my old motherboard onto a cardboard box, hooked up the GPU, a PSU and the two HD's, went through them and pulled what I could.

It really seems like I lost a platter on my 120gb drive because I could only ever get to half of it.

then i transfered to my thumb drive and swapped back and forth.

Not much really, that computer hadn't been used in YEARS