Hello, recently a friend of mine got a new computer but wanted to pull files off her old one. She had 2 hard drives in her old PC. So basically what I did was take them out and plug them in to the new PC as secondary drives. The first one worked just fine, appeared in windows, and I was able to drag and drop the files onto her hard drive.
The problem comes with the second drive. It is visible in the BIOS but it wont say new hardware found and there is no icon for it in My Computer. Now, I am decently computer savvy so I know all about Disk Management and the need to assign a drive letter. The problem is, Disk management DOES see the drive, but doesnt let me do anything to it except "Delete Partition".... granted, if she wanted the hard drive in the new PC just for the extra space I bet i could delete partition and it would work, but she wants files off of it. The disk management even says 16 of 20gb free, so it sees the hard drive and even measures the amount of it but why cant I access it? Yes it was a windows drive, not a linux one or anything... Any help is appreciated.
The problem comes with the second drive. It is visible in the BIOS but it wont say new hardware found and there is no icon for it in My Computer. Now, I am decently computer savvy so I know all about Disk Management and the need to assign a drive letter. The problem is, Disk management DOES see the drive, but doesnt let me do anything to it except "Delete Partition".... granted, if she wanted the hard drive in the new PC just for the extra space I bet i could delete partition and it would work, but she wants files off of it. The disk management even says 16 of 20gb free, so it sees the hard drive and even measures the amount of it but why cant I access it? Yes it was a windows drive, not a linux one or anything... Any help is appreciated.
