HDD Compatibility

eSleep · 06-26-2009, 05:12 PM

I have a really old hard drive that was a secondary drive for Windows 98. I currently use Windows XP and I recently bought an external casing for this drive. I plugged it in and it doesn't show up.

It shows up under Hardware Profiles but its not listed under My Computer. I would like to try to extract the data somehow before formatting it for Win XP. This old external HDD is full of data. About 80/160GB full. Thanks in advance.

PohTayToez · 06-26-2009, 05:18 PM

Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Disk Management

Does it show up there? What does it say?

eSleep · 06-26-2009, 05:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PohTayToez

Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Disk Management

Does it show up there? What does it say?

It lists my 2 internal drives, 2 CD-ROM drives but not the external.

bengal85 · 06-26-2009, 05:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PohTayToez

Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Disk Management

Does it show up there? What does it say?

Yeah everything is done with the disk manager

06-26-2009, 05:12 PM	#1 (permalink)
eSleep New Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 7	HDD Compatibility I have a really old hard drive that was a secondary drive for Windows 98. I currently use Windows XP and I recently bought an external casing for this drive. I plugged it in and it doesn't show up. It shows up under Hardware Profiles but its not listed under My Computer. I would like to try to extract the data somehow before formatting it for Win XP. This old external HDD is full of data. About 80/160GB full. Thanks in advance.

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PohTayToez Diamond Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Illinois Age: 20 Posts: 3,353	Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Disk Management Does it show up there? What does it say?