Partitioned drive in different PC...

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Orbital57, Sep 25, 2006.

  1. Orbital57

    Orbital57 Private First Class

    Hi all,

    I finally got around to gutting my old PC of it's hard drive and installing it in my new PC, unfortunately the old drive was partitioned (roughly 40GB / 80GB).

    XP MCE is now looking at the newly installed HD and saying that it is an unformatted 40 GB drive (I assume looking at the first partition but not seeing it properly). Is there any way for me to save my old files? If not can I at least format the whole drive so that XP recognises the full 120 GB.

    For info the old system is no longer functioning so I can't use that to retrieve important info.

    Any suggestions?

    Thanks,

    Orb

    Full Spec

    Athlon 64 3700+
    2GB RAM
    XP Media Centre Ed (up to date to the end of August)
    1*200 GB HD (mostly full)
    1*120 GB HD (as above)
    DVD RW
     

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