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New comp, can't read old hard drive
Name: Magnus Date: August 4, 2003 at 17:48:30 Pacific OS: Windows 2000 Pro CPU/Ram: Athlon Xp 2600, 784mb 333
Comment:
Just yesterday I got a new computer. Athlon Xp 2600, 784mb 333mhz ram and gigabyte Triton K7 400 board.
Got a 60gb samsung 7200rpm as well.
I want to copy my old files across right from my old 40gb samsung 5400rpm drive but when I plug it in etc and installed Win2k on the new one, I go to my computer and it shows the old drive as like um E: and when I try to open it it says drive not formatted, would you like to format.
What should I do? I really need the data off the hard drive does this error mean the hard drive won't work? please help!
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