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Secondary IDE channel no 80 conductor cable installed

I have a seagate hard drive with a lot of information that i need to access now its not being read by the OS(windows xp) and cannot be mounted in the linux suse 10.1.
The same hard drive can be read in the bios and gives me the message

"Secondary IDE channel no 80 conductor cable installed"
please tell me how to retrieve the data will changing the board help.Crusial
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might also be with the board. some boards get confused if an 80-pin cable is already installed, it would not work with 40's. like mine, for example, it simply stops booting but a few changes in the BIOS would do the trick. i didn't want to go there at the time, so i pulled out the 80-wire cable from the board (losing my optical drive for that session) & used the drive using a 40 & it worked fine.

Alternately, you can check your jumpers & if either cable is dual FIFO, you can have them as master & slave since your board doesn't seem to like having 2 masters (or slaves) on different cable types.
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I have tried getdataback and easy recovery professional but it doen't work please tell me wat is the alternative cant i change the board.
>>  I have tried getdataback and easy recovery professional but it doen't work please tell me wat is the alternative cant i change the board.   <<  if you want specific advise, you should give more info than "it does not work"
As I noted earlier, Gillware is an excellent data recovery company with reasonable (by data recovery standards) prices.   If the data's important, that's the best way to recover it, since neither GetDataBack nor Easy Recovery Pro can access it.