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Simcut · 29-03-2008, 01:24

very strange goings on at the mo, still cant work out why windows doesnt like these hard drives but at least it recognises them being there in a way, so I can recover the data and move it to another hard drive, then convert the hard drive in question and hey presto.

I've just installed a 500gb hard drive which was being unused, I've installed XP on it, Im now going to recover my old 500gb files and move them across, once thats done I'll format the old 500gb hard drive and convert it to what XP requests, that should then make the drive active again I presume?

Very strange anyhow, truly bizarre!! :S

29-03-2008, 01:24	#20
Simcut Inactive Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Hertford, Hertfordshire Age: 43 Services: 120mbit Virgin Media Cable Sky Digital Package (Sky+) Posts: 691	Re: New PC not recognising 2 of my 3 hard drives, showing as "unreadable" in Windows. very strange goings on at the mo, still cant work out why windows doesnt like these hard drives but at least it recognises them being there in a way, so I can recover the data and move it to another hard drive, then convert the hard drive in question and hey presto. I've just installed a 500gb hard drive which was being unused, I've installed XP on it, Im now going to recover my old 500gb files and move them across, once thats done I'll format the old 500gb hard drive and convert it to what XP requests, that should then make the drive active again I presume? Very strange anyhow, truly bizarre!! :S