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SATA drive not recognised
Hi all,
I had a pc with a SATA drive installed running XP. It got a virus that i couldn't shift and so decided to go to W7.
Bought a new machine etc and now wanted to connect the SATA drive via USB to get the uninfected files off.
The issue i now have is that none of my new equipment recognises the drive.
it does the sound to recognise that something is plugged in, but nothing else - i looked in disk manager, it shows nothing.
When i plug into a W8 machine, it's pretty much the same.
I naughtily plugged it into my work laptop to check (running W7) and it asked fro admin rights (IT protection) so couldn;t open it there either.
Can anyone help here? i'd be so chuffed as it contains all my private work, and family stuff on it.
Cheers.