I searched around the forum and couldnt find anything exactly what I'm having trouble with. I just got a new computer and continued using the same slaved hard drive as before (formatted in ntfs i believe, western digital 60gb), there is no os on this drive, just files - a lot of files. I set-up the jumpers, got it connected with the other hard drive, and boot up... i check bios, it reads ... i go into xp and see that it's not showing up in the explorer. i check the device manager, and it shows up on there as well. so im not sure how to explore it. that should automatically happen i thought. any suggestions!!

Go into control panel, administrative tools, computer management and then disk management. Find the drive there and right click on it and see what options it gives. Seems like there is a activate or something of that nature. God made men and then rested, God made women and none of us has rested since..

Mark partition as active is what I was thinking of. Heres some help maybe here, http://www.theeldergeek.com/disk_management.htm God made men and then rested, God made women and none of us has rested since..

ControlPanel/AdminTools/ComputerManagement Scroll down the menu to Storage/DiskManagement I believe you can take ownership of the disk there and it will then be available in windows. You may need to take ownership of files as well but not sure on that score. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and his wife will never forgive you.