How can I get windows 8 to recognize my hard drive recovered from xp?
I have connected a recovered hard drive (Western digital) outside my computer crashed, that was a win xp to another computer running windows 8. The new computer doesn't recognize at all. Nothing does show up as an extra hard drive. There is in fact no answer I can see at all. Scary is as I said this is a new computer and I'm not at all familiar with where to find anything. I have to go to 'help' to even find the control panel I am as unfamiliar with it. I would like to import all of my pictures and documents from the old hard drive. Any help please?
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