Me again about transferring files from 1 HDD to new computer...

Kelloggs

Hey Again, i posted yesterday about not being able to transfer info from my old HDD on to my new PC...

Basically ive connected the HDD via an IDE wire that plugs into the USB.... The 'found new hardware' pops up to tell me its been found however after it says its installed and ready to use, i cant find it....what should happen is that window should pop up saying what would you like to do with it (open to view files, play etc....)

So ive done a search for it and cant find it anywhere....it should really be under the hardware logo in my computer but its not...

So what i did was click on the 'safely remove hardware' tab to see if i could find its location... Apparently its in Location 0...??

Does anyone know where this is and how i can get to my files...?

Any help would be Mucho Appreciated...

Kell

Chippy_Minton

Open My Computer and the drive should appear as removable disk and have its own drive letter (E:, F: etc.).

Kelloggs

Yea ive looked there aswell.... im not that blonde

Its weird, im starting to panic now coz im unable to get my stuff and there was loads....i should have backed up i know...my lesson is well and truely learned....

Any other ideas?

HalleluiahMan

Is it listed in Device Manager?

Chippy_Minton

Make sure the drive is set to Master, not Slave. There should be a little plastic 'jumper' next to the IDE socket on the back of the drive which you can use to set it to Master.

Also, which USB port are you using? On some computers the front USB ports don't work for external drives and you have to use a port on the back of the computer.

Kelloggs

Hmmm, well ive gone into My Computer again and under my current HDD in C drive its showing up as a device.... its set as a 'y' (with 2 dots above it...

I also cant see any 'little plastic 'jumper'' on the HDD...

Kelloggs

Ive just unplugged it and put it back in and when i look under the 'remove hardware' its under 'USB MASS STORAGE DEVICE' and it called 'USB device'... when i click on all the USB devices in my computer it says theyre all empty.... ARRGGHHH

Woby_Tide

Kelloggs wrote:

Hmmm, well ive gone into My Computer again and under my current HDD in C drive its showing up as a device.... its set as a 'y' (with 2 dots above it...

I also cant see any 'little plastic 'jumper'' on the HDD...

so it is now showing as a drive?

in between the IDE cable and the power cable there should be 4 sets of pins in a line, then there should be some pictures somewhere on the drive showing what the jumper settings should be on the pins to set it as master/slave etc.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf-JAVA/Doc/images/c00378006.jpg

Woby_Tide

go to your start menu, right click on 'My computer' then choose Manage

Choose storage, then Disk Management, what discs does it say you have in the lower half of teh screen i.e. Disk 0, Disk 1, Disk 2 etc. and what does it say about them

Kelloggs

Rite, i see where that little part is now...what exactly do i do with it..?

Kelloggs

Done that, in DISC 0 it has my current HDD (c:) and its healthy and also in that is the HP RECOVERY which is healthy,

Then,

Underneath it has NEW_VOLUME (D:) healthy....