Vista - Usb Drive not accesible

Just installed a new version of Vista Ultimate on a new hard drive. Wanted to
copy files over from my old drive with xp on it to new drive but i can't
access the drive. I have tried connecting the drive internally , externally
via usb ,firewire and sata but no joy. Any idea's anybody before my
girlfriend kills me before I lose all her photo's
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thanks

On Feb 26, 4:15 pm, sjb29 <s...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Just installed a new version ofVistaUltimate on a newharddrive. Wanted to
> copy files over from my olddrivewith xp on it to newdrivebut ican'taccessthedrive. I have tried connecting thedriveinternally , externally
> viausb,firewire and sata but no joy. Any idea's anybody before my
> girlfriend kills me before I lose all her photo's
> --
> thanks

I am having the exact same problem. I just got a new computer with
Vista Ultimate and I wanted to transfer my music from my old drive so
I bought an IDE to USB connector. WHen I plug it in nothing happens.
The hard drive does appear in device manager but it marks it as
unreadable. I have changed the jumpers to the correct alignment (which
might be your problem sjb29, the jumpers need to be set to Master). I
have no idea what to do.

"sjb29" wrote:
> Just installed a new version of Vista Ultimate on a new hard drive. Wanted
> to
> copy files over from my old drive with xp on it to new drive but i can't
> access the drive. I have tried connecting the drive internally ,
> externally
> via usb ,firewire and sata but no joy. Any idea's anybody before my
> girlfriend kills me before I lose all her photo's

first of all you have to check if your device is properly recognized by
Vista. Check out this in device manager.
if all options are good (hardvare is recognized and you don't have got any
"!" or "?" then you can try to initialize hard drive by Start -> Run (or
Windows + R) and type:
%SystemRoot%\system32\compmgmt.msc /s

When you come in you have to find "disk management" and try to right click
and "initialize disk".

Options described may have different names because I translated from my
language.