31.4gb free of 31.4gb on 160gb drive

[TomBishop]

I have a HDD from an old PC that stopped booting (I believe it was XP). I save it knowing I needed the files, and today's the day I bought an external enclosure to boot it up and copy the files before I reinstall the OS.

After booting it up, it only shows 31.4gb free of 31.4gb (and the RECYCLER folder for the recycle bin). I'm assuming this is a partition from the drive since it's missing ~130gb.

How can I access the files? Thanks.

[osprey4]

Hi TomBishop,

Welcome to TechIMO.

View the drive in disk management and tell me if the unused space is showing. Depending on how old the drive is, some of them had a 32GB limit based on BIOS limitations.

[TomBishop]

That's right, the drive is from late 2003/early 2004. I pretty sure I partitioned the drive to make sure I wouldn't run into that problem.

Disk management shows this:

152.67 GB

31.49 GB NTFS
Healthy (Primary Partition)

121.18 GB
Unallocated

Thanks.

Is there any way to explore the drive outside of Windows and copy the files from there? If I can see the folders and file names, I can copy what I need.