Trying to read SATA drive from XP PC on Windows 7 PC

[petesteege]

My XP PC died. I bought a new Windows 7 PC and want to transfer my data from my old 500GB SATA drive (S: drive on my old PC - I used it for data only - not my boot drive).

I bought a USB converter, plugged the drive into a USB port. The drive is recognized, but my PC doesn't see any volumes or anything else. It says its working properly.

How can I get access to my files? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[devenprasad]

Hi there

First of all welcome to SevenForums!

The SATA Drive probably will require a power supply unless its a laptop SATA drive. You may be able to use the power supply from a desktop.

 

[theog]

Can you post a screen shot of Disk management with the old Hd pluged in to USB port?
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[petesteege]

Here's a screen shot ofhe Device Manager screens:





I do have power on the drive.

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[theog]

Can you post a screen shot of Disk management with the old Hd pluged in to USB port?

 

[Bill2]

Could be a permissions issue. Try taking ownership of the entire drive.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1911-take-ownership-shortcut.html

 

[petesteege]

Tried owning, didn't work

I tried owning the drive. The drive doesn't show up as a mapped drive, so I couldn't right click on it to get the "ownership" option.

Any other ideas? Thanks for the help.

 

[danielraja2]

Since it is a SATA drive connect it straight to the avail SATA port and check it what is the make of the casing?