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Old HD in new Computer

  • 14-12-2006 2:32am
    #1
    Lydesia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 231 ✭✭


    Guys just looking for ideas on how to fix this problem.
    Friend of mine has put an older Samsung IDE drive into his new Dell, which is a IDE/SATA board. Anyways to cut to the chase, the drive shows up in device manager, but not in My computer. It displays as "working properly", so any ideas on how to make it accessable?

    Cheers.


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  • #2
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Is it formatted? If so and still not showing, try assigning a drive letter to it when in Disk Management. Start->Run->compmgmt.msc in the box and scroll down to Disk Management.


  • #3
    DublinEvents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 209 ✭✭DublinEvents


    Are you sure that old drive was partitioned before your friend hooked it up to his PC? Just go into disk management and see what it says. I think the drive space might be unallocated with no partitions. Or maybe it was previously used for Linux in which case you will have to delete those partitions and create new ones. If you want to recover any data from those partitions, use Explore2fs for copying data from them before deleting them.


  • #4
    coolmoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 923 ✭✭✭coolmoose


    only dealt witgh this earlier today on my own. you need to initialise the drive in disk management. control panel>administrative tools>comp management>disk management. initialise the drive, and that should do the trick.


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