[Muffy7]

Hi everyone, i'm now using vista.

I'm using a primary IDE hard disk, and i'm trying to get data off my friends SATA hard disk. I installed it into my computer... When i go to "my computer"... it shows both disks, however when i click on his it says that the drive is "raw" and needs to be formatted.

is there any way to just get the data off it without formatting?!?!

[lilLB]

hmm not familiar with vista much but does the other drive have XP on it? Maybe thats the issue.

[Muffy7]

No both drives are running Vista.

And i just discovered something new!

In disk management... it shows that his hard drive is only 128gb capacity.. when really it is 250gb!

but it shows mine exactly accurate.
WTF!

[kimsland]

I think backward compatability should already be OK here

But I wonder if his is 64Bit and yours is 32bit (the norm)

In any case you may be better the other way around, plug your drive as Slave into his computer (assuming his boots)

[Muffy7]

his is 64 bit i think.

would that change everything!?!

[kimsland]

Sorry I'm trying to find the answer to this but it seems
Yes they can see eachother, as long as your motherboard supports 64bit

I would like some clarification on this by others, if they can post here