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Sometimes your bios has a maximum limit for large hard drives.
How big is the new drive?

In my gigabyte motherboard for example, it would only recognise drives larger than 1 TB as 32 GB until I flashed the bios.
So even if you can see the drive in "my computer" doesn't mean the bios can take it.
If you think that may be the case, then go in to the bios menu and see how large it thinks the drive is.

the reason you cant read your old drive under the new OS install is your old partition table has probably fucked itself. physical bad sectors will do that to a disc especially if its near the start sectors that define the partition file allocation tables or MBR.

you most likely will be able to recover whats on it, but any wintendo OS is only going to look at the beginning of the partition table and go 'hey! you have aids.. lol!' and tell you, you need to reformat it again because microsoft are stupid and don't think any other type of partition exists besides FAT/FAT32 or NTFS. if windows cannot detect the partition type, it will automatically assume its not formatted and want to take control.. (except in the case of EXT2 and EXT3 which i think it just ignores completely)

try a tool like GetBackDataNTFS or something like that which will run on the non-system locked drive and examine the previous partition data as a whole, sector by sector.. not looking at bad sectors and shitting itself. that said if the drive has a physical fault this tool may not work 100% of the time.. but its saved me more often than not. it is a time consuming process but worth it.

p.s. tom you suck

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