old drive in new pc

[Leo]

I purchased a new pc with windows XP installed. I moved my old hard drive
which had W98 on it to my new pc as a secondard drive. CMOS sees the new
drive as well as Disk Manager but Windows does not assign a drive letter to
it and I cannot access any of my old data.

 

[Jim]

I purchased a new pc with windows XP installed. I moved my old hard drive
which had W98 on it to my new pc as a secondard drive. CMOS sees the new
drive as well as Disk Manager but Windows does not assign a drive letter
to
it and I cannot access any of my old data.

Does Disk Manager show the partition as active? XP will not assign a drive
letter to an inactive partition.
Jim

 

[John John]

Does Disk Manager show the partition as active? XP will not assign a drive
letter to an inactive partition.

I'm sure that is news to many. How do you explain that partitions on
disks with more than one partition can all have drive letter
assignments? A partition does not need to be active to obtain a drive
letter.

John

 

[Twayne]

I purchased a new pc with windows XP installed. I moved my old hard
drive which had W98 on it to my new pc as a secondard drive. CMOS
sees the new drive as well as Disk Manager but Windows does not
assign a drive letter to it and I cannot access any of my old data.

Go to Disk Management and assign one.

Start; Run; diskmgmt.msc OK

 

[nesredep egrob]

I purchased a new pc with windows XP installed. I moved my old hard drive
which had W98 on it to my new pc as a secondard drive. CMOS sees the new
drive as well as Disk Manager but Windows does not assign a drive letter to
it and I cannot access any of my old data.

As you are just talking of a disk, I presume that was the only disk in the old
computer - now have you set the switch to slave as I am sure it would have been
master in the old computer - just have a look and change it!!!!!!!!!!!

Borge in sunny Perth, Australia

 

[Andyh]

I purchased a new pc with windows XP installed.  I moved my old hard drive
which had W98 on it to my new pc as a secondard drive.  CMOS sees the new
drive as well as Disk Manager but Windows does not assign a drive letter to
it and I cannot access any of my old data.

I had this same problem recently.
Found that Norton goback was the issue, reinstalled the hd into old pc
removed goback and reinstalled hd into new pc. Everything worked
Hope that helps

Andy