Zilkee interface & working HDs, but Windows not recognized

[Bluepepper]

I have been using a Zilkee hard drive interface that connects to my laptop USB to retrieve files from old hard drives. I have an old IDE hard drive (Western Digital WD800) from an old computer that is acknowledged by my laptop (running Windows 11) with a beep and the Device Manager lists the drive (DW CDW08 J0-B00RC1A USB Device), but does not list it in Explorer (or under Disk Management). All drivers are updated. I attempted to move the jumper settings on the drive to various positions and the 'Master w/Slave Present' jumper settings will list the drive as XT-U33502 USB Device under Device Manager, but still no acknowledgement from Explorer or Disk Management. Zilkee recommended using DiskGenius and it does recognize the drive (with 31 instead of 80gb), but reports numerous read sector errors due to fatal device hardware error (starting with sector 0 through 533). I used the repair function and it reports 4112 damaged with 0 bad sectors repaired after disk verify completed. Seems academic at this point, but it appears this drive is 'bricked'. Any thoughts here before I use it as a door stop? I'm new to this forum and wondering if there is anything to learn here before I move on to the next old hard drive found from my past computers.

[fzabkar]

DW CDW08 J0-B00RC1A --> WDC WD800JB-00CRA1 (byte-swapped)

With the jumpers set to Master (single drive), can you retrieve a SMART report?

[SWM]

DW CDW08 J0-B00RC1A --> WDC WD800JB-00CRA1 (byte-swapped)

Is this how it should be?..
It's not a module hex. It's the device manager. Or is it a Windows 11 feature?

[Hardcore Games]

I suggest to see if CrystalDiskInfo can read the disk. If it can then the report can shed some light on the disk and whether it needs to be retired.

I have and old SD card at 32GB which is bigger than this disk.

[fzabkar]

DW CDW08 J0-B00RC1A --> WDC WD800JB-00CRA1 (byte-swapped)

Is this how it should be?.. :shock:
It's not a module hex. It's the device manager. Or is it a Windows 11 feature? :)

I don't understand what is going on, but all words in the 512-byte Identify Device output are byte-swapped. Windows normally adjusts the byte order, so perhaps it's an issue with the USB-PATA bridge.

[WebClaw]

DW CDW08 J0-B00RC1A --> WDC WD800JB-00CRA1 (byte-swapped)

Is this how it should be?..
It's not a module hex. It's the device manager. Or is it a Windows 11 feature?

I don't understand what is going on, but all words in the 512-byte Identify Device output are byte-swapped. Windows normally adjusts the byte order, so perhaps it's an issue with the USB-PATA bridge.

Completely agree. I've seen this personally when using cheap bridges. I would highly suggest using a bridge with a Marvel chipset. They seem to be the staple for ACE and others.