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July 16th 08, 12:46 AM
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IDE to Laptop
I just bought an IDE to USB cable to connect a couple of old Seagate internal
hard drives to my new laptop w/ Vista on and get the files I had off them. The drives show up fine and the software is installed right away as soon as I plug them in, but when I try to access them from My Computer it says I have to format the drive first. I know that that would delete everything off the hard drive, which is the opposite of what I want to do. Is there anyway I can read and copy the files off the drives without formatting them ?? Also, when I looked in the Disk Management console, it showed one of the drives as 31 GBs of capacity when its actually 80 GBs. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks in advance.. 
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July 16th 08, 01:30 AM
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IDE to Laptop
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:46:54 -0700, Ehab
wrote: I just bought an IDE to USB cable to connect a couple of old Seagate internal hard drives to my new laptop w/ Vista on and get the files I had off them. Stay with your original "IDE to USB" thread. You have two replies there. The drives show up fine and the software is installed right away as soon as I plug them in, but when I try to access them from My Computer it says I have to format the drive first. I know that that would delete everything off the hard drive, which is the opposite of what I want to do. Is there anyway I can read and copy the files off the drives without formatting them ?? Also, when I looked in the Disk Management console, it showed one of the drives as 31 GBs of capacity when its actually 80 GBs. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks in advance..
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