Re: Vista won't reconize external hard drive
- From: "Mike Hall - MVP" <mikehall@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:26:24 -0400
"undisclosed" wrote in message news:4e48f0dd48dd9e19dcf460b72ac653ee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
So I just got a new computer, a HP Pavilion running Vista, and I have a
older hard drive that I want to copy data from. The hard drive came from
a system running XP. It's a older hard drive, a Seagate 80 gig IDE
connector hard drive, so I went out and bought a external hard drive
device bay -- you just put the hard drive into it and then plug it into
a USB port on my computer.
If I plug it in, all that happens is every 10 seconds I get a pop up a
message saying:
"You need to format the disk in Drive J before you can use it. Do you
want to format it?"
Of course I don't want to format it, I'd lose the data I'm trying to
copy!
If I click cancel it just keeps bugging me about it and I can't access
the HD.
HP wants $60 for a tech support call for this.
Help! How do I copy my data over?
--
SoulBlazer
Try setting the external drive jumpers to CABLE SELECT (CS)..
--
Mike Hall - MVP Windows Experience
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/
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