"R. C. White" wrote:

Hi, Bill.

In Disk Management, open the Help file and search for "foreign" and look at
"Move Disks to Another Computer". On that page, you should find
instructions, including this paragraph:

Detect new disks

On the new computer, open Disk Management. Click Action and then click
Rescan Disks. Right-click any disk marked Foreign, click Import Foreign
Disks, and then follow the instructions on your screen.


If you get hung up anywhere, post back with exactly what you did and exactly
what results you saw. ("Tried it; didn't work" doesn't help us help you at
all.) Actually, I liked the Help file in WinXP's Disk Management better;
the new one puts too much emphasis on dynamic disks, which I'm not really
"into" yet, so I have to "read around" a lot of extra verbiage.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail beta in Vista Ultimate x64)

"Bill" wrote in message
...
I have a new CQ desktop SR5113WM with Vista. I instaled my old XP hard
drive
WD400BB, it shows up in the Device manager but it has no letter and
dosen't
show in Coumpter. I wanted to get old files from it. Would like help.

Thanks!
Bill


R.C.
When I click Rescan Disk ther is no menu. A box comes up for about 3 sec.
(Disk scan in progress, Please wait). thats all happens.

Bill

Hi, Bill.

I'm not sure what to suggest next. But it might help if we know your
physical drive configuration: How many HDs, what interface(s), what order
on which cables, etc. When you installed "my old XP hard drive WD400BB"
into your "new CQ desktop SR5113WM with Vista", did you add it as the second
HD, or did it replace the new HD? I've made some assumptions about what you
did, but you know what they say about "assume". :^{ Please spell it out
for us. And, while it probably won't make a difference, please tell us
which version of Vista, including whether 32-bit or 64-bit.

I've mixed'n'matched several kinds of drives over the years (SCSI, IDE,
SATA), but have all 4 SATA drives now, with the 3rd and 4th (Disk 2 and Disk
3) comprising my first RAID, a 300 GB RAID 1 array. One thing I learned is
that different mobo/BIOS/chipset combos enumerate the hard drives
differently, and Vista has changed the system from WinXP - which was
slightly different from Win2K, Win9x, etc. In some configurations, the IDE
drives are at the head of the chain (Disk 0), even though the BIOS is set to
boot from SATA. So we have to read the labels in Disk Management (and other
powerful disk utilities) very carefully. Also, we can't rely on "drive
letters" at all, because those bounce around every time we reboot or add a
thumb drive or make other apparently-innocuous changes.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail beta in Vista Ultimate x64)

"Bill" wrote in message
...


"R. C. White" wrote:

Hi, Bill.

In Disk Management, open the Help file and search for "foreign" and look
at
"Move Disks to Another Computer". On that page, you should find
instructions, including this paragraph:

Detect new disks

On the new computer, open Disk Management. Click Action and then click
Rescan Disks. Right-click any disk marked Foreign, click Import Foreign
Disks, and then follow the instructions on your screen.


If you get hung up anywhere, post back with exactly what you did and
exactly
what results you saw. ("Tried it; didn't work" doesn't help us help you
at
all.) Actually, I liked the Help file in WinXP's Disk Management better;
the new one puts too much emphasis on dynamic disks, which I'm not really
"into" yet, so I have to "read around" a lot of extra verbiage.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail beta in Vista Ultimate x64)

"Bill" wrote in message
...
I have a new CQ desktop SR5113WM with Vista. I instaled my old XP hard
drive
WD400BB, it shows up in the Device manager but it has no letter and
dosen't
show in Coumpter. I wanted to get old files from it. Would like help.

Thanks!
Bill


R.C.
When I click Rescan Disk ther is no menu. A box comes up for about 3
sec.
(Disk scan in progress, Please wait). thats all happens.

Bill