Help - can't see my old hard drive

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Hello,
I added a new hard drive to my PC and installed XP pro to it. I left my old
hard drive (which has ME on it) unplugged until I had XP up and running.
Then I connected the old drive as a slave. The problem I have is that I
can't see it under my computer but it shows up under disk managment - but
with no drive letter. How can I get access to this. I would like to pull
some files from it and then wipe it clen and format NTSC (it's FAT32 right
now).

Can anyone give me some advice???
Thanks!
 
Mike said:
Hello,
I added a new hard drive to my PC and installed XP pro to it. I left my old
hard drive (which has ME on it) unplugged until I had XP up and running.
Then I connected the old drive as a slave. The problem I have is that I
can't see it under my computer but it shows up under disk managment - but
with no drive letter. How can I get access to this. I would like to pull
some files from it and then wipe it clen and format NTSC (it's FAT32 right
now).

Can anyone give me some advice???
Thanks!
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Have you tried reseating the IDE cables to the old drive, and on the
motherboard?

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It's now a "hidden" partition. If you have Partition Magic you can extract
files from it, but otherwise put the HD back in temporarily as a master and
extract the files. Not a good idea to unhide the partition while WinXP is
running.

Brian
 
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