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Using Old hard drives as "new" external ones
My old XP Pro hard drive worked just fine when I purchased my new PC and
installed Vista Home Premium on it. The old tower was properly disposed of (recycled) and I bought an inexpensive I/O Magic external hard drive case to use the XP drive as a backup but in order for Vista to "use" that old drive it wants to format the thing (i.e. ERASE EVERYTHING). I've got some incredibly important documents and things on the old drive and don't want to lose a bit of it, but I can't even plug it into the new system's mother board. Is there anyway to get around Vista's formatting requirement to access the files on the old drive? |
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Using Old hard drives as "new" external ones
Erich wrote:
My old XP Pro hard drive worked just fine when I purchased my new PC and installed Vista Home Premium on it. The old tower was properly disposed of (recycled) and I bought an inexpensive I/O Magic external hard drive case to use the XP drive as a backup but in order for Vista to "use" that old drive it wants to format the thing (i.e. ERASE EVERYTHING). I've got some incredibly important documents and things on the old drive and don't want to lose a bit of it, but I can't even plug it into the new system's mother board. Is there anyway to get around Vista's formatting requirement to access the files on the old drive? When you put the drive into the external enclosure, did you remember to set it as Master? It might have been set to Cable Select before so make sure. If the drive is properly jumpered in the case and Vista is still not seeing the files, then try connecting the drive either directly to an IDE connector in your new computer temporarily or take it in its enclosure and connect it to another computer. If the files are seen then, copy them to the hard drive of your new machine or burn them to CD/DVD-R. Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User |
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Using Old hard drives as "new" external ones
.... since when does a hard drive running externally via USB need to be set as a master -- Choogster ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Choogster's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=32705 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=833679 http://forums.techarena.in |
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Using Old hard drives as "new" external ones
Choogster wrote:
... since when does a hard drive running externally via USB need to be set as a master Since that's required by most external hard drive enclosures. There are a few that have a different jumper setting (refer to the manual) but all of mine state that the drive in the external hard drive enclosure must be set to Master. Hope that clarifies this for you. Obviously this would not be applicable to a drive enclosure designed for SATA. Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User |
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Using Old hard drives as "new" external ones
Choogster wrote:
... since when does a hard drive running externally via USB need to be set as a master That's a normal requirement of every external USB case I've ever seen |
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Using Old hard drives as "new" external ones
The instructions for all eight (three different manufacturers) of my external
USB IDE drive enclosures say the drive MUST be jumpered as master. I Bleed Blue and Gold GO BEARS! "Choogster" wrote in message ... ... since when does a hard drive running externally via USB need to be set as a master -- Choogster ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Choogster's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=32705 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=833679 http://forums.techarena.in |
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Using Old hard drives as "new" external ones
I've jumpered it to every setting possible and still no dice. Perhaps I got
a defective external drive case?? "Cal Bear '66" wrote: The instructions for all eight (three different manufacturers) of my external USB IDE drive enclosures say the drive MUST be jumpered as master. since when does a hard drive running externally via USB need to be set as a master -- Choogster |
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Using Old hard drives as "new" external ones
Can you try a different USB port, or can you test it on another machine (your
problem might be with the USB port or even the cable)? I Bleed Blue and Gold GO BEARS! "Erich" wrote in message ... I've jumpered it to every setting possible and still no dice. Perhaps I got a defective external drive case?? "Cal Bear '66" wrote: The instructions for all eight (three different manufacturers) of my external USB IDE drive enclosures say the drive MUST be jumpered as master. since when does a hard drive running externally via USB need to be set as a master -- Choogster |