Transferring Hard Drive to New Computer

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I bought a new pc with a 80gb hard drive which, as expected, was formatted as C

I installed WinXP Prof and several programs without any problems. I want to put in the slave drive from my old computer, as it has all my files on it. I installed it as a Slave with the original one as Master. The BIOS recognises the drive and it appears in the Device Manager. However Windows has not assigned a drive letter and it does not appear in My Computer

How can I get Windows to assign a drive letter? Do I have to reformat it and lose all my files? Any help would be appreciated
 
Hello

Well Xp should allow you to see the drive and you can copy
your data off the drive and then reformat it, but once you install
the drive and it's jumpered correctly like you said you should be
able to see the contents on the drive

Alvin
 
thats the problem Alvin ... it doesn't recognise the drive despite it being jumpered correctly
 
Try going to the Disk Management utility (right-click on My Computer, select Manage, then pick Disk Management). Is the drive listed there? If not, try rescanning disks. If it's listed there, try assigning a drive letter and see if you can access it in Windows

-IVE
 
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