Have a SATA hard drive that went bad in desktop, want to use new SATA drive as master and old as slave so I can retrieve data from old drive how do I accomplish this. Have connected nut only shows one harddriveIf the drive cannot be recognized then the chances of file recovery are very slim unless you care to spend BIG dollars on professional assistance.You must post exact status of old HD. If a stand alone booting of HD in CPU is STILL possible or not. To be able to run a DIAGNOSTIC Test.The first point to address is that SATA drives do NOT exercise "master/slave priority pin settings like Ide drives do. They are prioritized by virtue of what sata port you attach them to IE:pot "0","1" etc depending on the number of sata port the computer has AVAILABLE. I am not certain (as i don't use sata very much) but it may be necessary to enter the BIOS to enable the DETECTION of more than one sata drive.Others may wish to comment on that aspect. Here is an article i found for you that explains sata rather well.truenorth
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-us&name=install-troubleshoot-sata-non-mac&vgnextoid=2b089d2c3c90e010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRDQuote from: scott1 on August 05, 2010, 01:33:23 AM

Have a SATA hard drive that went bad in desktop, want to use new SATA drive as master and old as slave so I can retrieve data from old drive how do I accomplish this. Have connected nut only shows one harddrive

The first point to address is that SATA drives do NOT exercise "master/slave priority pin settings like Ide drives do. They are prioritized by virtue of what sata port you attach them to IE:pot "0","1" etc depending on the number of sata port the computer has available. I am not certain (as i don't use sata very much) but it may be necessary to enter the BIOS to enable the detection of more than one sata drive.Others may wish to comment on that aspect. Here is an article i found for you that explains sata rather well.

truenorth