Help - I Installed a windows 98 HDD into an XP machine and it doesnt work anymore

[Guest]

I am trying to transfer the contents of my HDD from an old win 98
machine to my new XP machine.

I have taken the disk out of the 98 machine, changed the jumpers to
slave and then installed it into the XP machine, hoping to be able to
see the old drive from the XP machine.

Although the drive did apear in XP, it was called a "recovery drive",
and the files I was looking for were not there (even though 3 GB of
data was shown as used).

I then removed the disk and put it back into the windows 98 machine,
but it will now not work in there either. Could the XP machine have
changed the windows 98 disk in some way to render the data
irrecoverable on either machine?

Dave.

 

[Guest]

Just tried it in a different XP machine - the drive is not visible at
all on the this machine, and in the disk management util within XP the
new dirve appears as Unallocated.

Any help?

Dave.

 

[compsalvage_cscs]

Put the drive in the first tried XP Machine. (The one that said
Recovery Drive)
Open the control Panel.
Open Administrator tools.
Open Computer Management.
Under the heading on the left that says "Disk Management" will display
your file storage devices.
Right click on the Disk Iocn in the lower window. (Not the desription
of the used or free space, but the Icon on the left side.)
Import Your Disk

 

[neil]

Did you swap the link back to master on the 98 machine. Some hard drives
need to set as master with slave attached, could that be the issue with the
XP machines.
As far as I know XP will not have done anything to the drive. With the drive
back in the old PC can you access it via a win98 boot disk.

Neil

 

[compsalvage_cscs]

Place the drive in the XP machine as slave, providing your master is
set to master, and not cable select.
Boot your XP O/S and use disk management. (Control Panel/ Administrator
Tolls/ Computer Management/ Disk Management)
Your 98 HD will show as Recovery Disk.
Right Click the Large Disk Icon in the lower window on the left.
Import your 98 HD.
Start Transfering your files....

 

[Guest]

Still couldnt get it to work - ended up using a software tool called
iRecovery which allowed me to browse the contents of the disk from XP
and then transfer it across. This has meant I have been able to copy
all my files across to my XP machine, although it did cost me £20 for
the FAT32 version of the application. At least the files survived
though - phew!

Dave.