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Old December 27th 09, 02:46 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Cenneth A
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Default Trying to save data from old disks

Hi,

I had to replace my two computers, but, saved their master hard drives in
order to retrieve the user data later. The drives are one IBM Deskstar
ATA/IDE 41.1 GB and one Western Digital WD 400 IDE 40.0 GB. Both drives have
filesystem NTFS and both were bootable masters with Windows XP SP2 swedish
version.

To retrieve tha data I purchased a Deltaco SATA/IDE to USB adapter and
connected the drives one after the other to a USB 2.0 contact on my Windows
Vista desktop. But, in both cases it says on the Vista display in
'Properties for local disk' that the drive is on 1.51 GB of which 209 MB is
in use and 1.31 GB is free. The filesystem is FAT and the root map is empty.

I've tried master, slave, cable select but always got the same result.

Are my data lost or is there a way to retrieve them?

Thanks for any comment.

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