I am running Windows 7. My MB is a Biostar H55.
I added a 2nd previously used Sata Samsung SP1614C 160GB HD that was operating on XP Pro that had at least 120 GB of files on it that I wanted access to.
My problem is when I installed this 2nd drive it was recognized in "My computer" as drive E: but was only showing about 15mb of files that were either empty or unreadable.
When I opened disk management I saw the drive in 3 partitions. 1st was about 5mb in size, 2nd was about 140GB insize both online and active. A third partition was unallocated that was 10mb in size.
When I tried to explore the larger 120GB partition from disk management, it came up in windows explorer as 10mb in size with the same unreadable files I mentioned above. Disk management sees the larger partition but Windows 7 will not display the files I was looking for.
Is there a way to get Windows 7 to recognize the files on this drive that had been operating under XP Pro?
Any help would be wonderful.
I dont have any other devices other than a mouse, key board, Monitor hooked to the desktop.
I did notice that my old Samsung drive has 8 jumper pins that are empty (not jumped). The operating system drive is a newer Sata that has a slot with 4 pins in it that are not used anyway.
Thanks for any help.
John
I added a 2nd previously used Sata Samsung SP1614C 160GB HD that was operating on XP Pro that had at least 120 GB of files on it that I wanted access to.
My problem is when I installed this 2nd drive it was recognized in "My computer" as drive E: but was only showing about 15mb of files that were either empty or unreadable.
When I opened disk management I saw the drive in 3 partitions. 1st was about 5mb in size, 2nd was about 140GB insize both online and active. A third partition was unallocated that was 10mb in size.
When I tried to explore the larger 120GB partition from disk management, it came up in windows explorer as 10mb in size with the same unreadable files I mentioned above. Disk management sees the larger partition but Windows 7 will not display the files I was looking for.
Is there a way to get Windows 7 to recognize the files on this drive that had been operating under XP Pro?
Any help would be wonderful.
I dont have any other devices other than a mouse, key board, Monitor hooked to the desktop.
I did notice that my old Samsung drive has 8 jumper pins that are empty (not jumped). The operating system drive is a newer Sata that has a slot with 4 pins in it that are not used anyway.
Thanks for any help.
John