help needed please

jeff200sx · 25 Nov 2013 at 11:13

Hi guys I just installed a new SSD as my primary drive, put windows 7 on and booted up. After reconnecting my 2 old drives 1 installed just fine ( old primary one ) but my second bigger drive with all the stuff i actually want is showing as unallocated etc.
im sure its something quite simple as its not very old and deffo not damaged but i really would like to get the data from this ( 350 or so Gb of stuff i actually want/need )
HELP!!!!
currenty running minitools partition wizard and its been going for an hour and not even got to 1% yet! im sure its a simple thing im missing but the other drive just installed drivers and popped up like std autoplay, scanned the disk and sorted itself out in minutes.

cheers
Jeff

DaleTheWhale · 25 Nov 2013 at 13:07

Have you made sure the drive is connected back into the same SATA port on the motherboard?

Anyway you could have accidentally formatted the HDD during install/before?

wazza300 · 25 Nov 2013 at 13:45

maybe changing the drive letter will help? don't format it though if it asks you to

jeffa123 · 27 Nov 2013 at 09:34

Just something simple. When booted you may have installed the drive but you may still have to take ownership when moving or copying data. This is the reason a backup is restored so much quicker because paths and permissions are of the ame Admin phase.