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Firewire to IDE?

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HDvideo

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Mar 14, 2004
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Hi all,

Brand new to Tek-Tips. I've searched the forums and can't find the answer to this question. Hope it's not too basic...

I've had a Maxtor 5T060H6 drive that I bought last year in an external firewire enclosure. I've got extra spaces on my internal IDE bus, and am trying to install it in my deskside computer (IBM Z-Pro.) I've successfully installed it, and it comes up in XP Pro Disk Management as Unallocated, and wants me to format it. Formatting it would be a bad thing.

How do I make XP recognize this drive as valid, so I can see all my fine data again?

Thanks,

HD_Video

 
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