I installed an used drive from an old pc that has some info on it that i want. All my hardware sees the drive, including hardware manager, but I can not read the drive for my old files. I use windows xp pro sp2 and my system is a dell dimension 8100
2007-02-22 08:35:24 · 6 answers · asked by carmen L. 6 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
No viruses and all jumper are correct, like i said i can see the drive in devide manager but i cant edit anything on it.
2007-02-22 08:41:01 · update #1
the old pc was a HP pavilion xt963
2007-02-22 08:47:01 · update #2
same OS and no it did not crash
2007-02-22 08:53:38 · update #3
Did your "old computer" happen to "crash" - stop working?
*IF* so, your hard drive may be bad.........
Check this link
2007-02-22 08:48:10 · answer #1 · answered by mrresearchman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is the old drive formatted with WinXP Pro also? If it is formatted with another OS (say Win98), It will not be able to read the drive. The hardware manager may 'see' the drive, but the OS will not be able to use it.
2007-02-22 08:47:41 · answer #2 · answered by Siouxxi M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you set the drive jumper correctly?
2007-02-22 08:39:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What kind of computer was the old one?
2007-02-22 08:44:25 · answer #4 · answered by Bjorn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i guess you should check the HD jumber, make one primary and the other slave (you will notice that on the HD itself) a configuration
2007-02-22 08:53:43 · answer #5 · answered by Tarek 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you might have a virus
2007-02-22 08:38:36 · answer #6 · answered by friend of a friend 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋