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Accessing XP files via enclosure...Acer netbook
Hi.....not sure where I should place this request for help so decided to post in the general discussion.
Several years ago my old desktop packed up and I have just tried to acces the files from the old IDE hard drive via an external enclosure into my Acer netbook with windows 7 starter as the OS ...also tried this with another Acer netbook which has the full windows 7 OS installed.
The IDE hard drive was/is partitioned...I have drive E and an F drive...I can access the files on E but when I try to access the files on the other partition of F drive,I get a message that the files can`t be accessed...I did a bit of searcching and what comes up is that the drive F is NTFS and I can`t access it via windows...a message says Windows cannot access the files.
Can somebody give me some advice on how I can access the F drive please ? ...I`ve lots of my own recorded music on there from several years ago that I have nowhere else.
And can somebody please explain what has happened here as how can one partition/drive be accessed but not the other ? ...the F drive was placed there in it`s own partition by a friend when one time my older computer needed the OS re-installing and the files were saved from the old OS and partitioned into the F drive from the crashed computer when the new OS was installed...i had needed to have the music saved and it was placed in a separate drive/partition.
The OS on the IDE hard drive is XP Pro.
I hope I have explained this problem properly !
Thanks,
Stephennity.