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May 14, 2018 - 2:28 pm
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I need to view contents of an old hard drive WD2500JS which came from an XP system. I installed it in a Win7 desktop but the system didn't assign it a drive letter. Disk management shows a primary partition with a tiny EFT system partition and a tiny unallocated area.

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If the drive has been encrypted, it may not show a drive letter.

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The drive has never been encrypted.

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You might try to open elevated command prompt and type diskpart and type "automount enable"

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