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lowtidesurf

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09-09-2008 at 12:44:30 PM

I have taken out my SEAGATE harddrive from my desktop computer as the computer has crashed. Before I rebot my computer I need to recover the data off the drive. I have bought a SATA external USB dock and have connected it to my laptop with the harddrive in the cradel.

The computer recognises the Drive and can be viewed as a 360GB harddrive in Disk management. However the drive has no letter assigned to it and when I right click on the drive and try and change drive name all the options are "greyed" out.

Am I going about recovering the Data the correct way. And why wont XP allow me to rename the drive so I can see it on MY Computer.

I am running windows XP service pack 1, the C: drive and the external drive are using NTFS.

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MrLinux

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09-09-2008 at 05:30:27 PM

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To see the drive in Windows, don't rename it, assign it a drive letter.

MadHacker

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09-09-2008 at 06:11:51 PM

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something is wrong with the drive...
does S.M.A.R.T. tell you anything usefull about the drive? (BIOS)
or speedfan has a nice built in utility to detect S.M.A.R.T. status.

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evongugg

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09-09-2008 at 06:31:22 PM

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Welcome to the forums!

Try hooking the hard drive directly to a computer if you can.
See if it is recognized in the bios and if Windows give it a drive letter.

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Richie_W

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