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05 Aug 2012   #1

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external hard drive

my computor crashed and died so i bought lenovo and got a encloser case by sabrent installed the hard drive from the old computor running xp (it does have a boot directorie) new computor is running 7 i am able to see the drive with no letter in admin on the controle panel but am unable to access it... any ideas lot of files and pics i want to save... thanks

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05 Aug 2012   #2

Win7 Enterprise, Win7 x86 (Ult 7600), Win7 x64 Ult 7600, TechNet RTM on AMD x64 (2.8Ghz)
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Welcome Drewpy,

Try going to Disk Management an assigning a drive letter to it.
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