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I have an old Seagate Barracuda 7200 of 250GB ultra SATA that was used in a Linux machine 15 years ago as a file server.

I purchased an USB-to-IDE/SATA adapter. I connected the HDD to the power supply of the old machine that still boots (the power supply of the adapter seems to small, it doesn't spin the hdd, 5v 2500 mA). HDD starts spinning. I connect the USB-to-SATA adapter, but Windows 10 does not see anything on the USB.

Have checked the USB, everything works fine. Have checked the master/slave jumper on the HDD, tried it on all positions, master, slave, cable select or none… Same result.

Giacomo1968
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Alex Popescu
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The drive hardware is probably not the problem. Linux uses different file-systems (ext2, ext3, ext4, btrfs, xfs, just to name a few possibilities) and Windows has no understanding of those.
Windows will think the partition(s) are not formatted. (But you can see that there are there if you look in Disk Administrator.)

Easiest thing would be to fire up a Linux installation (live USB-stick, you don't have to scrap your Windows install for this).
That should give you access to the disk and from there you can copy any files you may want to rescue to other media.
Considering you asked the question I'm guessing you are very unfamiliar with Linux. You may want to ask a friend with some basic Linux understanding to help you with that.

Tonny
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