I swapped out my hard drive and need to get the new computer to recognize it

my hp died, and i had to take the hard drive and swap it out to a new computer. Right now it is in an external case hooked up to laptop via USB - no expansion slots. . the laptop will not recognize it, it only sees the recovery partition. How can i work around tyhios to get the files moved over?

Hi,
That's true because it still has some sorts of "signature" on it. My suggestion use other computer and reassign its C: to something then try again. I used to swap HDD's nearly every month and noticed this.
Regards.
BH
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