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Xp does not recognize my hard drive
Name: Harat Date: October 10, 2002 at 03:43:11 Pacific OS: Xp Pro CPU/Ram: amd 1 G
Comment:
Hi i am trying to get my xp to read from my hard disk which is from my other computer which is also running xp. The bios and device manager have recognized my hard disk but it did not allocate a drive letter or be seen in windows explorer. please help.
Name: Harry (by Hugger1) Date: October 10, 2002 at 05:07:47 Pacific
Reply:
Are you using the HDD as a data drive (D:\) or as your system (C:\) drive? As well, what file system are you running on that HDD?
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Response Number 2
Name: Harat Date: October 10, 2002 at 21:08:29 Pacific
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NTFS. i previously used the hard disk on my other computer running xp as well. I need to use the data in that disk onto my new xp machine. It does not contain any system / OS files only data .
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Response Number 3
Name: Jeff LaBelle Date: November 11, 2002 at 09:03:44 Pacific
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I had the same exact problem. If you are using Roxio Goback on the slave drive, uninstall it. XP will then immediately recognize it - regardless of if either of the drives are formatted in NTFS or Fat32.
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Response Number 4
Name: Dillon Lee Date: November 17, 2002 at 05:51:00 Pacific
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I have the same problem and I've located the hard drive in disk management. The drive is not assigned to a letter so how do I go about assigning a drive letter to that drive? I don't want to format my hard drive coz there is some important work in there. Please help. Thanks.
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Response Number 5
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