Can not diplay drive files

bkis10

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from externial hard drive, drive letter displays, but can't open or display files/volumes. current computer running windows 7, old system was XP. drive is an iomega 120, usb connection, install disk was for windows 95/98. windows 7 help/trouble shoot not working on this probloem.
 

trapper

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Do you still have your old PC? If you do I would try to copy off all of the data you have on the external drive and then reformat it. From what I can remember with this external drive it sometimes had some mac formatting which wouldn't work with windows 7.
 
You have mentioned four operating systems in your post , Win 7 , XP, 98 and 95 what exactly do you have / You have a computer with Windows 7 on it and you are trying to read an external disk that was written with a computer with XP, 98 or 95? Is your Windows 7 a 32bit or 64bit OS and is the other OS the same? In order to read those files the OS has to be the same.
 

jrazor247

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I've never heard of 32 or 64 bit having incompatible disk formats. Can you plug the disk back into XP and go into disk management and check the format/partitioning? There may be some incompatibility with the partition scheme - like an extended partion containing other partitions or a dynamic disk.
 

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New computer runs win 7, old computer was xp, install disk for iomega was win95/98.