I purchased a new desktop running XP. My old desktop (XP) had 2 hard drives of which one was a 20Gb. This hard drive I have recently tried to run as an external HD on my new PC as I have much needed information on it relating to an association of which I am the secretary. This hard drive will not start up in an external case. The case is OK as I have tried another smaller hard drive in it and that started up as I could hear it running. This 20Gb hard drive will not run fitted directly in the computer either as I have tried it. (Hope the warranty still stands!).
Anyway, what I would like to know....is there any way I could get this hard drive to 'fire-up' so I could at least download the information on it, to another hard drive? I cannot understand why it does not work now as it did in my old PC.