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January 9, 2009 at 07:13 AM
flar_dragonrider

New Vista System with Sata Hardrive Wants to format old XP Storage HD

by flar_dragonrider . Updated 17 years, 6 months ago

So I’m trying to add my old XP samsung sp2514n HD to my new up and running Vista machine. It has a lot of photos, music and movies on it and I don’t want to loose it all. Vista is telling me it wants to format the drive. I don’t want it formatted, I just want to have it as a second drive.

I have it set to Slave, Have it plugged into the EIDE.
The EIDE cable isn’t long enough to go to the secondary HD plug so it is in the Master plug. Could this be my issue?

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