Where do I locate the slave drive?

My computer got wrecked during a thunderstorm the other day so I took the hard drive out and hooked it up to another one as the slave drive so I could get my files off of it, but I don't know how to access it. Can someone tell me step by step how to find the files on the slave drive?

Answers:
Power ON, press Del or F2 to open BIOS menu. Check first if your slave drive is detected in BIOS. If not, check the jumper setting of the hard disk. If slave, it should connect to the middle connector of the ribbon cable. If master (on secondary IDE), it should connect on the end of the cable. Once detected in BIOS, it should appear in Windows as another drive letter. If NOT detected in BIOS, it is probably DEAD.
look at back of your hard drive <physical> check jumpers setting it is marked with M<master> s<slave> Auto <auto detect>
As your computer boots up, click repeatedly on the f2 key and when you get into setup, you will see your drives.
If you even have a slave drive it will be listed there.
Click on MY Computer icon and all your drives should show up there Click on the old drive and copy and paste them to your new drive
Just look in my computer for it. The drive should show up as something like E:\ or F:\ etc depending on how many devices you already had.

If it is not showing up there it is either dead, had its partition tables wiped out, or you have not connected it properly.

Check the data cables, they must not be reversed and if you are using 1 cable for two drives you must have them jumpered properly as master and slave.

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