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dodonnell7   09-04-2009 at 02:00:19 AM

my computer crashed so i am borrowing a friend's mini dell computer. i needed to get my itunes music off my hard drive with xp operating system so i used a sata to usb converter. when i plug it in it is shown in my computer but when i click on my drive it says disk is not formatted do you want to format of course i clicked no. why is this happening and how can i get my music.

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Bronze Storage badge r_manic   09-04-2009 at 08:15:55 AM

There could be something wrong with the converter. Have you tried plugging in your hard disk directly into your friend's computer's SATA?

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Bronze Storage badge sminlal   09-04-2009 at 08:07:50 PM

This isn't a drive from a RAID volume by any chance is it? If so, you'll need another computer with the same RAID subsystem in order to access the drive.

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dodonnell7   09-09-2009 at 02:21:49 AM

r_manic wrote :

There could be something wrong with the converter. Have you tried plugging in your hard disk directly into your friend's computer's SATA?



thanks for the prompt response. The computer i am using is a mini-dell computer and i don't know if i can swap the drives. i will be asking a friend if i could usa their desktop computer and swap the drives.


Message edited by dodonnell7 on 09-09-2009 at 02:25:20 AM
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dodonnell7   09-09-2009 at 02:23:12 AM

sminlal wrote :

This isn't a drive from a RAID volume by any chance is it? If so, you'll need another computer with the same RAID subsystem in order to access the drive.



Thank you too for the fast response. No.

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