Copying files from external hard drive.

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Hi community, my question is the following: how do i access to the files of an external hard drive from a computer. This is to say, the hard disk is from another computer, and i want to copy it's files pluggin it in my actual computer. The operator system that was installed in the hard disk was some version of XP, as well as the operator system that is installed in the hard disk of my computer. So, i intended to simply plug it to the mother (the DRIVE isn't even SATA) and to set the boot options from BIOS to boot from that hard disk. What i get are all errors. BIOS saying it isn't possible to run RAID from the disk, and from windows telling "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER". Thank you very much for your help, i have really valuable files on that disk.
 
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Well there are several choices if you only want to retrieve some files. If you attach it as a spare drive and startup from your usual drive it should show up in Windows Explorer.

If that proves to be problematic I would boot from a Linux Live USB stick and then mount the drive in Linux to access the files.

Try the access via Windows first and see if you can access the drive --

**if not** open an elevated command prompt (right click run as admin) and type "diskpart" (return) and then "list disk" (return), without the parens of course. Does the drive show up in the listed disks while it is attached?
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No, while you can attach it to your computer leave your boot drive alone and do not change the boot type to RAID, and allow your computer to boot from your normal boot drive. The other drive should be accessible but will not have the wrong drivers that will cause a boot error.

You can also get a USB drive adapter to attach it to an external USB port if you either don't want to open the computer again, will use it occasionally, or don't have any available ports in addition to those you already use.
 
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Well there are several choices if you only want to retrieve some files. If you attach it as a spare drive and startup from your usual drive it should show up in Windows Explorer.

If that proves to be problematic I would boot from a Linux Live USB stick and then mount the drive in Linux to access the files.

Try the access via Windows first and see if you can access the drive --

**if not** open an elevated command prompt (right click run as admin) and type "diskpart" (return) and then "list disk" (return), without the parens of course. Does the drive show up in the listed disks while it is attached?
 
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