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Old December 31st 07, 02:07 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Default external drive, partition not visible

On Dec 31, 12:02 am, ohaya wrote:
Hi,

With the enclosure attached, if you go to Computer Management-Disk
Management, can you see the drive? That should show you what areas are
allocated/partitioned. If there's a partition on there (which hopefully
you didn't wipe out when you formatted ), assign a drive letter to the
partition, and then you should see it in My Computer.

Are you SURE that it told you had to FORMAT the drive?

Jim

wrote:
I had a PC which had music on it and the mother board went out on it.
So I decided instead of fixing it I would take the 120gb hard drive
that wasn't the master hard drive out of it and use it as an external
hard drive connected to my laptop. My thought was I would be able to
gain access to all the music I had on this hard drive. when I
connected it to my laptop ( I bought a har drive enclosure ) it would
only let me progress with it if I formatted the drive, which I did.
Now here's the strange part, I know when formatting you lose whatever
is on the part which is formatted. There's a partition of this drive
showing 65gb of used space but I can't access it. How would I be able
to access this portion of this drive and hopefully get my music back.


Yes it asked me to format the drive and said you would lose what's on
the drive. I can see the same drive through disk management in
administrative tools.