Fat32 drive unable to see

[jrine]

Hi,

I have a Western Digital 10.2 gig Hard drive formated Fat32 that was
the only drive on a win98 machine. I need to get the data off of it.
I put the drive in my winxp machine as a slave to the master and
booted up the xp machine. Windows see's the drive and the Drive
Management sees it as active and healthy, but no drive letter is
assigned, resulting in not being able to access the drive to recover
the data.

I have tried installing it as a secondary master removing all drives
but the primary which has xp installed on. Ive tried to bring it up
using a usb to IDE adapter and still its shows up but no access/drive
letter. I would try to make it NTFS but with no drive letter this
option is out.

Is my main problem that fact that it has an MBR on it from being a
primary in the WIN98 box? What do I need to do short of buying a cd
burner and installing it in the old win98 machine and burning the data
off?

Thanks.

 

[JS]

Have you tried XP's 'Disk Management' tool to assign a drive letter?

JS

 

[Newbie Coder]

Jrine,

Is the drive jumper setting set to Cable Select (CS)? If not, are you using the
correct jumper setting for the drive in the first place? Just checking

You can go into Disk Management (right-click MY COMPUTER | MANAGE) click Disk
Management, right-click the drive & assign a drive letter to it.

Remember NTFS sees FAT but not vice versa

Lastly, spoof your e-mail unless you like SPAM

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi,

Drive letter are not being hidden with TweakUI!

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org