Help for WD 2540 Caviar needed

WD Internal Drives Desktop & Mobile Drives
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Hello Community,

i got an old AT Computer ( without USB & CD Burner ) to save Data.
So i put the Hard Drive ( WDAC2540 - Caviar Build 1995 ) over my
External AT/USB Cable to my Windows 10 PC, the Drive will attached,
but isn’t usable, because the Windows Device Manager says - unknown device.

so i need a idea / solution to read the data from the hard disk and expand this.

regards

Alex

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Hi AlexAaron,

You should connect WD Caviar drive in compatible Windows OS to make it readable in order to get data recover from this.

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I can see three possible solutions:
Find a Windows 10 compatible driver for your PATA/USB adapter. Did it come with a disk?
Buy a PATA/SATA adapter. I see one on Amazon for $4.00. This shouldn’t need a driver.
If the USB adapter works with Linux, you might be able to boot the new machine from a LiveCD and do the copy that way.

Good luck!

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Were you able to ever solve this.

I have the exact same issue and same drive.