XP not reading data from slave hard drive

[Kevin Sands]

Hi there, I could do with a little help. I removed my hard drive
containing windows 98SE and replaced it with a brand new drive and
installed windows XP which the computer now recognises as drive C
(Master) and windows XP is up and running. I then reinstalled my old
drive as slave in the hope I would just be able to transfer over any
data I wanted. I should have known it wouldn't be that simple.

BIOS reports both drives present and XP starts as it should, however,
the old drive does not appear under 'my computer'. Looking in disk
manager the drive is there, with no name or drive letter. Size, filing
system and free space are reported correctly and the drive is reported
as healthy and operational but I can't access the data on it. If I right
click - all I can do is delete the partition - which I do not want to
do.

I can transfer files by swapping hard drives and using removable storage
but I would like to be able to read the old drive from XP - any ideas???

The new drive with XP is NTFS, the old drive with 98SE is FAT32.

Thanks

Kev

 

[DL]

you say 'no drive letter' using Disk Management are you able to assign a
drive letter?

 

[Richard Urban]

Did you jumper the new drive as primary and the old drive as slave? If not,
the 2nd drive may not be recognized correctly, if at all.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Kevin Sands]

you say 'no drive letter' using Disk Management are you able to assign a
drive letter?

No - all right clicking on the drive will do is give me the option on
deleting the partition and that's it - apart from the help option. If
there is a way to do it in BIOS - I don't know it!

 

[Kevin Sands]

Did you jumper the new drive as primary and the old drive as slave? If not,
the 2nd drive may not be recognized correctly, if at all.

Yep - both drives are jumpered correctly

Kev

 

[Kevin Sands]

Yep - both drives are jumpered correctly

Kev

EUREKA
solved - I was running goback on the old disk, apparently XP has a
problem with this as goback alters the master boot record. I shut
goback down and lo and behold my disk was accessible

Thanks anyway

Kev

 

[jmc]

Old post, not sure if you have this figured out by now...

When I installed my second hard drive I had the same problem
I finally figured out why
had to initialize the disc
then it showed up in my computer

Using Disk Management
You might need to have a computer administrator account to perform some
tasks.

Disk Management is a system utility for managing hard disks and the
partitions or volumes they contain. With Disk Management, you can initialize
new disks, create volumes, and format volumes with the FAT, FAT32, or NTFS
file systems. Disk Management enables you to perform most disk-related tasks
without shutting down your computer; most configuration changes take effect
immediately.

To open Disk Management

Open Computer Management (Local).
In the console tree, click Disk Management.
Notes

To open Computer Management, click Start, and then click Control Panel.
Double-click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Computer
Management.
For information about using Disk Management, in Computer Management, click
Help on the Action menu.
For more information, click Related Topics.