Access data on a slave drive

[Marty]

After installing XP Home, my slave drive cannot be
accessed. XP is asking me to format the drive, which was
operating normally on 98. While the system acknowledges
that the drive is present it's contents can't be viewed
or accessed. How can I rectify?

 

[R. McCarty]

Was this drive present, during the XP install ? Sounds like the
structure is damaged. How does Disk Management identify the
drive (Partitions & Format).
It's a touchy situation. If you use Chkdsk w/ Repair options it
might help or it could result in further corruption. Do you have
any type of Disk analysis software (PQMagic, Partition Expert)?
to analyze the drive.

 

[Rock]

After installing XP Home, my slave drive cannot be
accessed. XP is asking me to format the drive, which was
operating normally on 98. While the system acknowledges
that the drive is present it's contents can't be viewed
or accessed. How can I rectify?

Before you do any troubleshooting with it, recover the data from the
drie. Put it in another win98 machine to see if it will read the data,
and if so copy it.

 

[Alex Nichol]

After installing XP Home, my slave drive cannot be
accessed. XP is asking me to format the drive, which was
operating normally on 98. While the system acknowledges
that the drive is present it's contents can't be viewed
or accessed.

See if it is a matter of Ownership. Boot with F8 to Slave mode, logon
using the Administrator icon there.

In My Computer, highlight the drive icon, take Properties, on the
Security page (available in this Mode) click Advanced - Owner and select
your own account to be made Owner,, checking the box to Apply to
sub-objects