Hi all!…Right now i’m attempting to recover some important files from a Fujitsu M1614TAU ATA2 hdd.As usual, i did the standard installation procedure(as far as i know)which are as follows:i made the Fujitsu hdd PRIMARY SLAVE to my other hdd,a Seagate Barracuda ATA66/ATA5 hdd as the PRIMARY MASTER on the IDE1 channel cable.
While on the IDE2 cable,i hooked up my CDROM as SECONDARY MASTER;and CDWR as the SECONDARY SLAVE.
After setting up the CMOS settings,i fired up my pc and after havingdetected both hdds successfully,it took about 1 min. for my pc to search for my CDROM and CDRW.When finally both optical drives were detected,WINDOWS 98se logo showed up.So far so good right?Well what came next is a blue screen with the word ‘MICROSOFT SCANDISK’ written on it!That’s all to it!No other wordings as are expected from the usual SCANDISK’s friendly warnings and the yellow scan bar at the bottom of the screen!At this stage,my pc hangs/freezes until i hit ctrl-alt-del and it started to boot up all over again.
I’m wondering whether both ATA2 and ATA5 standards can coexist on my FIC SD11 mobo?i’m using a ATA66/100, 80-conductor 40-pin cable for the IDE1 channel,though.Is this the right cable to use?
In addition, i even tried to do SCANDISK from Windows 98SE boot disk,but that attempt too failed to repair both hdds.Like before,my system hangs like…eternally!So could anyone have the answers to my predicament?Is there anyway that i could recover my data?Thanks a lot!Mikhail.
Windows 98se
AMD Athlon 500mhz
FIC SD11 mobo
320mb pc100 sdram
Seagate Barracuda ST313620A,ATA66,13.6GB 7200rpm hdd
Fujitsu M1614TAU ATA2,1.091GB,4500rpm hdd
