Windows 10: I have my old hard drive connected to my new pc. I see that there is 650 gb worth of data...

I have tried changing permissions and ownership of the drive yet i still cannot see the files. What am i not thinking of?

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new system old hard drive...

I have an old hard drive that has those old ribbon connections to transfer data to the mother board.

I have a new computer that mostly uses those cool little ATA (I think that is what they are called) connections.

The new computer has a Vista OS.

I opened up the case and I was supprised to see on the motherboard a wide ribbon connection and so I connected the old hard drive and a free power connection.

When I turned on the computer, the system started up like usual and did not notice the new hard drive.

I went to the Control Pannel and did an automatic add hard drive call and it did not find the old hard drive.

Any suggestions?

 

Not able to access old hard drive on new pc

I have a computer that is just a couple of years old but it's having issues connecting to a monitor (I'm guessing a video card issue) I took out the hard drive, and connected it to a new pc via a SATA-USB cable. However, the new pc is not properly recognizing the hard drive. It shows up, but as a hidden file. When I try to open it, I get a message saying “please insert a disk into USB drive". I've tried it on two different computers. Please help! There is some data on the old hard drive that I need to be able to access.

 

Old Hard drive to new hard drive

Hi Glyn,

It depends on the amount of data you have to transfer . . .

If you can attach the old Hard Drive to your PC as well as the new one, then the simplest method would be to drag the files over to your new drive in Windows File Explorer.

If you cannot connect both drives at the same time, then yes. the Cloud option would be the best . . .