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Win 7 won't see secondary IDE HDD
Hey All,
I've recently built a new computer, but I want to use the same IDE HDD as my old computer. However, when I try to boot into Windows XP I get a BSOD. After some searching I found that this was due to incompatible motherboard drivers.
I want to save my current files to a different hard drive before I do a fresh install with Windows 7, so I tried to put the IDE HDD in my other machine. This machine is currently running Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit on a SATA 500GB drive.
My problem is this: When I enter the BIOS I can see both hard drives, but all I can do is decide which to boot from; the XP or the Win 7 one. If I load up Win 7 I am unable to see the XP drive, so I can't copy my files over for backup.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Chrosominop