XP hard drive as a slave

[Guest]

I have vista installed on the master drive. I'm trying to set up an XP hard
drive as a slave so that I can salvage documents from it. I have all of the
jumper seetings set up the way that the hard drives direct but whenever I try
to access the XP hard drive it asks me if I want to format it and won't allow
me access to the files. Is there anything I can do. Would formatting the
drive erase all of the data on it?

 

[JW]

Just to make sure I understand you have two HDDs on the same IDE cable. You
have the jumpers on one of them set to Master and that is the one that your
Vista installation is on. You have the jumpers on the other drive (the XP
drive) set to slave.
When you check your BIOS settings do both drives show up?
However when you boot from the Vista drive you can not see the the XP drive
in Windows Explorer and therefore can not get the data off it correct?
Of course if you can see it and can reformat it you will loose all the data
on it..
However if you can see it to reformat it I don't understand why you cannot
get the data off of it. What happens when you try to open it from Vista?

 

[Guest]

i am having a bit of a similar issue. i have a secondary drive hooked in as a
slave and it will not recognize the slave since the upgrade to Vista and it
says that a Mass Storage Controller Driver is missing.

Scott

 

[Guest]

i am having a bit of a similar issue. i have a secondary drive hooked in as a
slave and it will not recognize the slave since the upgrade to Vista and it
says that a Mass Storage Controller Driver is missing.

Scott

 

[JW]

Make sure your other drive is configured as Master and not as Cable Select.

 

[Guest]

where would i do that?

Make sure your other drive is configured as Master and not as Cable Select.

 

[JW]

With the jumbers on the drive just like you did with slave drive you set up.
I am assuming that the two drives are on the same IDE cable so one must be
set to Master and the other to Slave or both can be set to Cable Select.
If the new drive you set to Slave is on IDE cable with a CD or DVD drive
then make sure that the CD or DVD drive has its jumbers set to Master. Each
device should have a draawing on it showing how to set the jumpers.

 

[Guest]

actually i have a SATA drive connected as a slave to the back of my dell
dimension 8400.

 

[Guest]

actually i have a SATA drive connected as a slave to the back of my dell
dimension 8400.

 

[JW]

Scott,
Sorry I got your posts mixed up with Oliver's origional post on this thread.

 

[Guest]

no problem. any ideas how i can get vista to recognize this drive? It is
hooked into the back of my computer as a slave.

 

[Guest]

no problem. any ideas how i can get vista to recognize this drive? It is
hooked into the back of my computer as a slave.

 

[JW]

I have two SATA drives running on a Desktop system. One dirve has Vista on
it the other has XP Home. Each is on its one SATA MOBO connector and the
BIOS reconizes both of them and each OS recognizes all partitions on both
drives. I am not familiar with a Slave SATA connction which I assume means
a second Sata drive on the same bus. Can you boot from either drive by
changing your BIOS? Are both drives using NTFS format?

 

[Guest]

forgive my ignorance but how do i try changing my BIOS? currently i cannot
see the secondary drive at all.

 

[Guest]

forgive my ignorance but how do i try changing my BIOS? currently i cannot
see the secondary drive at all.

 

[JW]

You need to review your computer users manual for how to get to your BIOS.
When your systems boots it probably tells you to hit F2 or the Delete key to
get to your BIOS. Contact your computer vendor for details or assistance.

 

[Guest]

I have 2 IDE Hard Drives connected. The primary was a Windows 2003 server
install, while the second was a file storage. Both were formatted as NTFS.
After installing RC2 on the primary drive, the secondary drive shows up but
is inaccessable. It shows as Access denied (D in the "My Computer". Vista
will let me format the drive, but then I will lose all the files on the
drive. Is there any way to bring the drive into Vista without losing all the
data? If needed, I can move the data by hooking the drive up to another
computer, but I would like to avoid that if there is another way.