In XP you have to activate the drive.
In Computer Management, Disk Management. Right click the drive and choose Activate.
Running a new FJ Siemens 3.2Ghz PC, 1GB Ram, 250GB SATA drive, Windows XP Home.
Took my old D: drive (a 20GB Seagate ST....) out of my broken PC and installed it initally as an external USB connected drive and then when I had the problem I took it out of it's external conversion housing and installed it inside the PC in the spare drive slot and connected it to the IDE port. It's in as a slave.
Window's XP see's the drive as drive J : Local Disk but when I double click on it, it comes back with :
Drive is not formatted....do you want to format now..YES or NO.
I have 20GB of info (music/video/pictures) I desperately need to recover from this drive (which had no problems in the old system) and I do not want to format it...
WHY DO YOU THINK I AM UNABLE TO ACCESS THE DRIVE AND WHY DOES XP HOME VIEW THE DRIVE AS UNFORMATTED WHEN IT'S FULL TO CAPACITY ALMOST ?
Just to note the drive originally ran on XM PRO on the old system...would this cause a problem ?? I'm not sure it would but hey someone may know ?
Is it something simple ?? Any idea's anyone....need to access this drive and the info on it quickly !!!
HELP
Thanks in advance
Roger Bailey

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