Yep, I've tried "Last Known Good Configuration" twice with the same results, it just went into the same "out of range" on the monitor.
As to DriveWire, I have 4 of them, one an older IDE based one for 2.5" and 3.5" drives. I have three of the newer ones which also have SATA capabilities like in the pix on BH Photo.
I talked with Apricorn yesterday and they discontinued DriveWire about 6 years ago because it didn't work with all 3.5" SATA drives. Their 2.5" (laptops) adapter still works fine. I checked several 3.5" SATA drives I have sitting around and it worked with some and not others. Oddly a 2 TB Seagate Barracuda drive made in December 2013 that I got thinking I might need to up my size works just fine with the DriveWire.
The first link you provided is correct, Apricorn discontinued it about 6 years ago. Why BHPhoto still lists it is beyond me.
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The second link is talking about a problem with IDE drives, not SATA drives. You can not do what they are suggesting on a SATA drive because the power for the drive is the same connector as the data connection. The power connector on IDE is the old style 4 pin one, on SATA it's a 16 pin thing and it is physically so close it would be hard to do it that way. But,
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I may have come up with a way to do it and a possible reason why the DriveWire device doesn't work with some SATA drives. I'll let you know after I test out the idea.
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The idea might work as there is a female to male SATA data only cable that I could find with a quick search using
www.startpage.com (The only search engine with a European Privacy Seal) but it wouldn't get here until early September. Oh, well. Do I want to wait that long to try it? Not sure. At $1.55 with free shipping on eBay, I think I'll order it anyway just in case. Whether the idea of using a more robust power supply separate from the DriveWire one, who knows, I sure don't.
Meanwhile, I did order a new USB 2.0 to IDE or Serial ATA (SATA) drive adapter cable from Cables to Go. Not cheap, $35.70 including shipping and tax. We'll see if that will let me access the data and let me migrate it. It can be done but the needed cable is female to female and a quick check on
www.startpage.com (The only search engine with a European Privacy Seal!) shows that it has to be ordered from China and it won't arrive before the near the middle of September.
While waiting I'm running the steps from
https://www.winhelp.us/repair-your-computer-in-windows-vista-or-7.html. Currently I'm running chkdsk: /R /X but it takes a looooong time.