Second hard drive not showing up?

[Nhs]

I plugged in my old hard drive into my PC and nothing showed up. I did some googleing and i found I had to go to Computer Management>Disk Management and enable that drive. I went there and I pretty much can't do anything. The hard drive I need to enable says its active.

Here what it looks like.
https://i.imgur.com/JuA2sEy.png

Edit: The hard drive was from my imac. Literally just pulled it out and plugged it in. Its also in 100% working condition.

[lockblock]

Looks active to me. You just need to assign a drive letter to the partition(s) that you wish to use.

[Nhs]

And how would I do that? It doesn't give me much options in the disk management

[macphistofly]

right click the drive and select change drive letter and path in the disk management window

[Nhs]

right click the drive and select change drive letter and path

When I right click the drive the only things that come up are "delete volume" and "help". I already clicked delete volume and did that whole process but it didn't do much.

[macphistofly]

if there's nothing on the new drive try deleting a partition and reformatting it.

[Nhs]

if there's nothing on the new drive try deleting a partition and reformatting it.

Well I actually wanted to try and recover files off of it

[chazus]

I believe Macs use HFS+ file system... Windows systems can't read it, probably.

You'll need to hook it up to another mac, or use recovery software that can read/convert it

If the old system is working... just put the drive back and and back up the stuff you want on there onto CD or Flash drive.

[Gravewyrm]

Depending on the age of the iMac, the drive will be using a GUID partition, and Windows doesn't see those partitions. To recover the files from the drive, you would need to install it into A.) another mac, B.) a Hackintosh. You could *possibly* use an Ubuntu Live Disc and attempt to recover files with it, as it will see the GUID partition, but I've never tested this, so results are unknown to me.

[lockblock]

Depending on the age of the iMac, the drive will be using a GUID partition, and Windows doesn't see those partitions.

Stop spreading misinformation. Windows vista and up all support guid partition table. Like Chazus says it is the hfs+ partitions that Windows can't access natively.

[Twoddle]

Go to the device manager in the control panel and scan for hardware changes.

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

http://www.macbreaker.com/2012/02/ac...m-windows.html

The second option should work for you (well, the first option would too, but that one costs 20 bucks). Make sure to back-up the registry and set a system restore point before running the .reg file and adding the driver files to your C:\Windows\System32\drivers directory, just in case something goes pear-shaped though.

[Gravewyrm]

Stop spreading misinformation. Windows vista and up all support guid partition table. Like Chazus says it is the hfs+ partitions that Windows can't access natively.

I'm not intentionally spreading misinformation. I'm merely going on what I encountered a few years ago when messing around with Hackintoshes. I have done a bit of research, and found that you are indeed correct about GUID (GPT) drives being supported, but in limited fashion. Chazus is correct in that its the file system that windows can't read. The partition can be read / accessed, once its given a drive letter, but anything in the HFS+ format, wont be readable, unless you follow Butler Log's suggestion.