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Hard Drives - [Resolved] Moved 2 hdd yo another computer posted in the Hardware forums; Hello I have moved 2 hdd (Samsung 160 gb) to another computer. The computer find them as 31 gb hdd and i cant open them. The computer says it is ...

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I have moved 2 hdd (Samsung 160 gb) to another computer. The computer find them as 31 gb hdd and i cant open them. The computer says it is not formated. What should i do, i have some information on them so i wont formated them. I have windows xp.

Should i reinstall xp or maybe vista.

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Hello Putte74,

Welcome to PCHF.

On the PC you have put the HDD's into, what version of Windows is installed?


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Duz the pc see the full size of the hardisk in the bios? If not it may need a bios update to support larger dirves. What mainboard is in the PC?
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i have xp in the computer. In the computer i put them into i have one 120 gb hdd and one 250 gb hdd and they are show right size, so i dont think its the bios
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And the PC you moved them from also had XP installed? I take it there is data you need to keep on these HDD's?

The PC you moved the HDD's to, now has 3 HDD's right?


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The pc a moved them to has xp and it is total 4 hdd with them a moved. Yes i have information on them so i wont format them.
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Hello. I had set the jumpers wrong so now its ok with the disc.

Thank you for the help.

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