Trying to copy data from an old drive

[simpo two]

Nearly there!

The new machine is up and running perfectly. Now I just need to transfer data from my old 80Gb HD (IDE) which was labelled 'D'. I've removed it from the old machine and connected it using the IDE connector and power supply which was plugged in to the new DVD writer.

My new machine also has a 'D' partition, so to avoid any conflicts I've temporarily named that 'Z'.

I've fired up the new machine and clicked on My Computer, hoping to see the old drive appear as 'D' - but no luck.

How do I get the new machine to see it, so that I can copy data to the new HD?

[voyds9]

Personally I stick it in a caddy which converts it to a usb drive. Insert into usb socket and copy what is needed.

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[simpo two]

Nice idea!

However with a bit of assistance I went into Disk Manager, which showed the old drive as 'foreign' - then you right click on that and select 'Import foreign drive'. Bingo, it appears And I'm copying stuff over as I type.

I shall now award my self a gold star

[ThePassenger]

simpo two said:

I shall now award my self a gold star

And a medal from the box

[sadako]

Hmm thats odd that you had to do that. Were you using dynamic disks on it?

[simpo two]

sadako said:

Hmm thats odd that you had to do that. Were you using dynamic disks on it?

For some reason it was dynamic, yes.