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  1. 8th August 2011, 04:53 PM #1
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    Old harddrives

    Hi all,
    Am running a notebook with windoze 7 on it and I want to view files on my old xp hardrives. At the moment both my desktop and old notebook motherboards have died but I know that the harddrives are ok.
    Bought a Ritmo Multi Function HDD Docking station.When I put in one of the harddrives it doesnt seem to recognize it on windoze 7.

    Can anyone point me in the right direction as to how I can view my old harddrives on windoze 7 or is it a case of buying another 'puter with xp on it?

    Thanks

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  2. 8th August 2011, 05:05 PM #2
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    All things being equal, Win7 will recognise XP drives. Does the drive have a jumper to select master/slave? If so, try removing it.
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    Sometimes you have to 'mount' the drives...

    Click Start -> Right click Computer and select Manage.

    Go to the tree about disks, I can't be much more specific at the moment, I'm at work where I don't have administrative rights so I can't open the manage dialog box.

    What you are looking for is the drive you can't access and the property to use it.
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    it may be a silly question but is the Ritmo Hdd dock IDE or SATA and are the old XP drives IDE or SATA?
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    Could be that the docking station is faulty ?
    I've come across ones that are.
    That's why I've also got one of these USB 2.0 to Combo IDE+SATA Hard Drive Adapter | eBay as a backup. It's never failed me.
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  6. 10th August 2011, 10:58 PM #6
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    Hi Woody,
    It does both apparently.
    I've got the old IDE interface .

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