adding an external Harddrive to WindowsXP

[jason]

I have an already formatted NTFS harddrive that I have
setup as a 2nd harddrive in WindowsXP. It has information
I want to retrieve off of it. WindowsXP sees the drive
and shows the 2 partitions on it but I cannot access
them. Is there a way I can get to the drive without
losing the information?

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

If its a permissions issue, See Help and Support and search for "take
ownership"

HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=308421

If the partitions are seen, but not assigned drive letters, right click My
Computer, Manage, Disk Management. Here you can assign drive letters to the
partitions.

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"jason" > wrote in message
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> I have an already formatted NTFS harddrive that I have
> setup as a 2nd harddrive in WindowsXP. It has information
> I want to retrieve off of it. WindowsXP sees the drive
> and shows the 2 partitions on it but I cannot access
> them. Is there a way I can get to the drive without
> losing the information?