question about adding an XP based drive to a windows 7 system

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A buddy of mine had a computer crash on him (power supply failure) so we
hooked his older IDE drive up to my windows 7 system to back up his data. My
system runs all SATA drives, so I hooked his up with my spare ribbon cable
(making sure jumper settings were correct) saw the drive in the bios and
when windows booted it said it installed drivers for the drive. I can see
the drive in device manager and in disk management but it does not show up
in explorer at all. Disk management sees it as a simple volume with 2
partitions and I tried making the partitions active but I'm still not seeing
the drive. I do have UBCD4Windows and can access the drive that way but I
was really hoping to access it through windows 7. Any idea what am I missing
or doing wrong?
 
A buddy of mine had a computer crash on him (power supply failure) so we
hooked his older IDE drive up to my windows 7 system to back up his data. My
system runs all SATA drives, so I hooked his up with my spare ribbon cable
(making sure jumper settings were correct) saw the drive in the bios and
when windows booted it said it installed drivers for the drive. I can see
the drive in device manager and in disk management but it does not show up
in explorer at all. Disk management sees it as a simple volume with 2
partitions and I tried making the partitions active but I'm still not seeing
the drive. I do have UBCD4Windows and can access the drive that way but I
was really hoping to access it through windows 7. Any idea what am I missing
or doing wrong?
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does it have a drive letter? I had a problem like yours
until I added a drive letter.
 
A buddy of mine had a computer crash on him (power supply failure) so we
hooked his older IDE drive up to my windows 7 system to back up his data. My
system runs all SATA drives, so I hooked his up with my spare ribbon cable
(making sure jumper settings were correct) saw the drive in the bios and
when windows booted it said it installed drivers for the drive. I can see
the drive in device manager and in disk management but it does not show up
in explorer at all. Disk management sees it as a simple volume with 2
partitions and I tried making the partitions active but I'm still not seeing
the drive. I do have UBCD4Windows and can access the drive that way but I
was really hoping to access it through windows 7. Any idea what am I missing
or doing wrong?
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Check with Disk Management and verify that the two partitions have been
assigned drive letters.

If you or the computer have not assigned them drive letters explorer
will not admit that they exist.
 
the drive in device manager and in disk management but it does not show up
in explorer at all. Disk management sees it as a simple volume with 2
partitions and I tried making the partitions active but I'm still not seeing
the drive. I do have UBCD4Windows and can access the drive that way but I
was really hoping to access it through windows 7. Any idea what am I missing
or doing wrong?
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Try logging in as Administrator in your Win 7! You will need to enable
the Administrator account first.

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Check with Disk Management and verify that the two partitions have been
assigned drive letters.
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If the drive was in use in the old computer, this should not be
necessary. Um.... but then I dunno what happened in that old computer.

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GlowingBlueMist said:
Check with Disk Management and verify that the two partitions have been
assigned drive letters.

If you or the computer have not assigned them drive letters explorer will
not admit that they exist.
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That's the problem.. I guess I just assumed a drive letter would
automatically get assigned... I've been using too many flash drives lately
:) thanks!
 
Chuck said:
A buddy of mine had a computer crash on him (power supply failure) so
we hooked his older IDE drive up to my windows 7 system to back up his
data. My system runs all SATA drives, so I hooked his up with my spare
ribbon cable (making sure jumper settings were correct) saw the drive
in the bios and when windows booted it said it installed drivers for
the drive. I can see the drive in device manager and in disk
management but it does not show up in explorer at all. Disk management
sees it as a simple volume with 2 partitions and I tried making the
partitions active but I'm still not seeing the drive. I do have
UBCD4Windows and can access the drive that way but I was really hoping
to access it through windows 7. Any idea what am I missing or doing
wrong?
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Simple. The old drive letter clashes with the new drives.
In disk management, just assign it to M: and N: or higher, and everything
will start to work.
 
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