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Answer» Having some trouble here. I took a hard drive (IBM) out of my old pc and put it in a different one (HP Pavilion 533w) as a slave drive. The bios recognizes it as a slave drive and in the right boot sequence, but in "My Computer" it doesn't show it. It has all of my important programs and data on it that I was hoping to have access to. What am I doing WRONG? What operating systems are on both drives? What are the file structures? FAT32 / NTFS on each? I agree with DeltaSlaya....WINDOW XP home is PROBABLY installed as FAT 32.Sorry for my ignorance, but how would I find out? Especially how would I check the IBM drive since I can't access it?Just because Win XP is installed on a partition formatted FAT32, does that mean it can't read another drive or partition formatted NTFS? I'm a bit SKEPTICAL about this.I'd like to know that one too. The Windows XP Home that is on my Samsung hard drive is FAT 32. Maybe that is why it recognizes it in bios but not in "My Computer." When I go to My Computer to check the drives it shows the Samsung drive divided up into 23 disks. When I right click on the first disk and check the properties the other drives are all there, the IBM and I have a Seagate FreeAgent Pro. But I know these are NTFS, so maybe that is the problem. The question is, what to do about it. What can I do to get the drive to recognize the other ones so that I can access my files? I'm getting disparate .Right clik My Computer...select Manage then choose Disk Management...how does it show up there ? ? Was the drive using disk compression before you swapped it in ? ? Any new software installed recently ? ? |
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