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coolpyrofreak

Member

From: Las Vegas

Registered: 2006-03-13

Posts: 53

Booting IDE drive with USB controller

Greetings,

I'm trying to boot an old IDE drive with one of those IDE/USB controllers.  My computer recognizes the USB controller:

usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi8 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 4
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access                                    PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 CCS
sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete

But I keep getting this error:

NTFS-fs error (device sdb): ntfs_fill_super(): Unable to determine device size.

Is it possible to manually input the size?  If not, are there any alternatives to get this drive to boot?  I just want to recover some pictures.

Thanks for your help.

ahcaliskan

Member

From: Sweden

Registered: 2008-10-29

Posts: 174

Re: Booting IDE drive with USB controller

I think you could use a rescue livecd, or archinstaller image to boot and then mount your ntfs partition and copy the desired pictures to your usb stick or usb storage.

coolpyrofreak

Member

From: Las Vegas

Registered: 2006-03-13

Posts: 53

Re: Booting IDE drive with USB controller

Thanks, I'll try that and let you know how it goes.