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Using old hard drive for external hard drive
I am trying to set up the hard drive from my old computer as an external hard drive to my new computer. I can see the old drive under disk management. It is marked as not initialize. When Initialized is clicked the message is "The device is not ready". How do I find out what is causing the drive to be not ready? I have the jumper pins on the old drive set as per Weratern Dtigial's instructions. The old computer's OS was win XP and the new compter's OS is Win 7. Any ideas on how I can get access to the data on this old drive?