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Old 11-30-2007   #1 (permalink)
joekc


 
 

HDD shows up empty in Vista

I have an HDD that I tranfered from an XP PC to a Vista PC. Vista recognizes
the HDD, but it labled it "New Volume", and shows it as blank, when there is
actualy several gigs of data on it. Any ideas?

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Old 12-03-2007   #2 (permalink)
R. C. White


 
 

Re: HDD shows up empty in Vista

Hi, Joe.

What does Disk Management say about that HDD? Run diskmgmt.msc and check
out its Help file. You probably need to "initialize" that "foreign disk".

RC
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> I have an HDD that I tranfered from an XP PC to a Vista PC. Vista
> recognizes
> the HDD, but it labled it "New Volume", and shows it as blank, when there
> is
> actualy several gigs of data on it. Any ideas?
My System SpecsSystem Spec
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