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pappasplace

9-12-03, 09:04 PM

I installed a slave hard drive( That has data from a HP Pavillion machine) into a newly built computer. The bios recognizes the old hard drive but I cannot access the files. Is there a way to encode the files on this HD?

satis

9-12-03, 09:24 PM

The drive doesn't show up in Windows under my computer?

pappasplace

9-12-03, 09:54 PM

The drive is visable in " my computer "I cannot read the files. The files open in " Gobblety Gook " script. For lack of a better word.LOL

pappasplace

9-13-03, 06:43 PM

I located a document file converter online and downloaded it. Now the files can be read.

satis

9-14-03, 02:24 AM

that's weird. What kind of file converter? I'm interested since I've never run into a similar issue.

pappasplace

9-15-03, 02:03 AM

Here is the url for the converter mentioned.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=B9E11E83-F51B-4977-B572-8C042DF802C1&displaylang=EN