Although I am now using XP, I have every older disk drive I ever owned. I
want to retieve old documents and photos from 95 and 98 drives. I plug thm
into the desktop power and data cables but cant see them or else the xp
machine won't start. do I have to get an old 98 machine to access these
drives??

Thanks for the help.

"JJM" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Although I am now using XP, I have every older disk drive I ever owned. I
> want to retieve old documents and photos from 95 and 98 drives. I plug thm
> into the desktop power and data cables but cant see them or else the xp
> machine won't start. do I have to get an old 98 machine to access these
> drives??
>
> Thanks for the help.

Does the BIOS recognise the disks?

JJM wrote:
> Although I am now using XP, I have every older disk drive I ever owned. I
> want to retieve old documents and photos from 95 and 98 drives. I plug thm
> into the desktop power and data cables but cant see them or else the xp
> machine won't start. do I have to get an old 98 machine to access these
> drives??
>
> Thanks for the help.

The old drives probably have their jumpers set to "master." I'm not
sure what happens if both drives on a single IDE cable are set to
master, but I wouldn't imagine that it would work very well.

If you are connecting one of the old disks to an IDE cable to which
another device (the main hard drive; a CD-ROM drive, etc.) is connected,
make sure that the jumpers of both devices are set correctly (either
master/slave or cable select).

See
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/conf.htm
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/confCS-c.html


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JJM wrote:

> Although I am now using XP, I have every older disk drive I ever owned. I
> want to retieve old documents and photos from 95 and 98 drives. I plug thm
> into the desktop power and data cables but cant see them or else the xp
> machine won't start. do I have to get an old 98 machine to access these
> drives??
>
> Thanks for the help.


I would rather install these old drives into an USB/Firewire external
hard drive box and access them in this way. Simpler as well as avoiding
any potential problems or issues concerning the present system, including
those already mentioned.

=?Utf-8?B?SkpN?= wrote:
>
> Although I am now using XP, I have every older disk drive I ever owned. I
> want to retieve old documents and photos from 95 and 98 drives. I plug thm
> into the desktop power and data cables but cant see them or else the xp
> machine won't start. do I have to get an old 98 machine to access these
> drives??

In theory, there should be no problem as long as your jumpers are set
perfectly.



















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