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Hard-drive Help

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Muggie89

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I have an old HP Pavilion (1997?) that I haven't used in about a year or two. I wanted to move some of my files from the hdd to a flash and ultimately my new computer. When I turned it on, everything powered up but it refused to boot up; my monitor went straight to power saver mode.

I figured the hdd was corrupted in some way or perhaps the motherboard was. I removed the hdd and tried to attach it to another computer as a slave drive. This computer also ran Windows XP so I didn't think it would have too many problems. The drive showed up under my computer, but it wouldn't let me access it without asking me to first format it. I don't want it to wipe the data.

Please help.
 
I'm not sure what a partition is or how to check to see it.
I'm a complete hardware idiot.
 
Maybe the drive was demagnetized?

Go to control panel/administrative tools/disk management, and there you'll see if a partition is recognised.

You might want try a recovery utility.
 
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