Using USB adapter to access old IDE drive - How can I see all of it?

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Hello folks

I recently got an Inateck Sata/IDE to USB adapter thing to give me a means of occasionally using my old optical drive with my newly built PC. All good.
After I did what I needed to do, I suddenly remembered that I had an old IDE harddrive from 20 years ago lurking around.
I connected it to the adapter and had a look.
I could open the drive but explorer presented it as being only a couple of GB in size, and there was just a few recovery files on there. But when going into disk management it reads it as being about 80GB in size.
How can I access that seemingly invisible part of the drive?
There could be untold sentimental treasures there!

Thanks
 
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