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2 Hard drives

Sep 15, 2007 12:21AM PDT

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

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(NT) What does it show under 'Disk Management' ?
Sep 15, 2007 2:24AM PDT
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2 Hard drives
Sep 15, 2007 2:58AM PDT

File system Blank
Status (active, primary partition)
Capacity 37.27 GB
% Free 100%
Fault tolerance No
Overhead 0%

Disk 0
Basic
37.27 GB

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(NT) Was the 400GB HDD partitioned ?
Sep 15, 2007 4:24AM PDT
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(NT) My goof...thought it was 400GB...but realize it's a 40GB
Sep 15, 2007 4:35AM PDT
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2 Hard drives
Sep 15, 2007 4:37AM PDT

NO I dont< think so