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Old 06-26-2009, 05:12 PM   #1 (permalink)
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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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Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Disk Management

Does it show up there? What does it say?
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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.
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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
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