Moving a Hard Drive

[Janner B]

OK, here is the deal.
I needed to get alot of data to a friend. I had a spare Seagate
Barracuda ATA hard drive, I initialed it and copied the data across on
my System (XP Pro, AMD Athlon).
I then took the drive to my frinds PC, intalled it as a slave to his
current XP pro hard drive. Disk management see's that the disk exists
but I cannot access it via explorer. What is the problem here? Why
should i have to re initialise the disk or reformat it?
I have tried all the possible combinations of CMOS settings, none of
which help.
Please help me to retain the data on the new system!!!

 

[Lil' Dave]

Bios translation differences. Moving the data as is depends on what's
available for data bus on each PC that uses identical recognition systems of
a data vehicle. Expound on that.

 

[Timothy Daniels]

OK, here is the deal.
I needed to get alot of data to a friend. I had a spare Seagate
Barracuda ATA hard drive, I initialed it and copied the data across on
my System (XP Pro, AMD Athlon).
I then took the drive to my frinds PC, intalled it as a slave to his
current XP pro hard drive. Disk management see's that the disk exists
but I cannot access it via explorer. What is the problem here? Why
should i have to re initialise the disk or reformat it?
I have tried all the possible combinations of CMOS settings, none of
which help.
Please help me to retain the data on the new system!!!

Do the file systems on both PCs use the same formats?

*TimDaniels*

 

[Frank]

OK, here is the deal.
I needed to get alot of data to a friend. I had a spare Seagate
Barracuda ATA hard drive, I initialed it and copied the data across on
my System (XP Pro, AMD Athlon).
I then took the drive to my frinds PC, intalled it as a slave to his
current XP pro hard drive. Disk management see's that the disk exists
but I cannot access it via explorer. What is the problem here? Why
should i have to re initialise the disk or reformat it?
I have tried all the possible combinations of CMOS settings, none of
which help.
Please help me to retain the data on the new system!!!

IMHO I believe that you would get better results if you used
a W98 boot disk to partition and format the drive with FAT32
then copy the files.