Problem Accessing My Old Hard Drive


  1. Sillron
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    Windows 7 Home/Ultimate
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    Problem Accessing My Old Hard Drive


    I think my problem to most likely be a relatively simple one. I have a desktop (Using it right now) with a hard drive, 7 etc etc and everything works fine. I am however having issues accessing a hard drive from an old lap top I used to own. It was sold, but I kept the hard drive. This was a while ago so I can't remember its OS, but I'm pretty sure it was XP but possibly vista. I have plugged it into one of my towers extra hard drive spots in hopes of being able to retrieve some old pictures from it.

    This is my problem: After reboot, it got a message saying the usual installing device driver software thing, after that... nothing. I look in my computer and no new drive showed up. Anybody know what to do?
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  3. Lebon14
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    Windows 10 Professional 64-bit
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    Go to Start Orb -> right click "Computer" -> choose "Manage"
    Then, go to Disk Mangement.

    You will see on the right, your usual hard drive and your optical storage drive. If your old hard drive is detected, you will see it there. If it is, right click then give it its own drive access letter. Then, it'll show up in Computer just fine

    If it isn't... well, there's a problem with the hard drive.
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