Access WIN98 files on slave disk

[JohnG]

Before installing XP with NTFS, I installed a new hard disk as master and
moved my old disk containing WIN98SE to slave.

How can I access the slave disk to retrieve my important files?

 

[VManes]

The old disk should show up as D: (or some further letter if you partioned
the new one into more than one) and you should be able to access the files
without any special actions.

If it's not showing up, check that it's found by your BIOS at bootup (did
you reconfigure the jumpers, if needed?)

Val

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Before installing XP with NTFS, I installed a new hard disk as master and
moved my old disk containing WIN98SE to slave.

How can I access the slave disk to retrieve my important files?

 

[JohnG]

All I did was change the jumper and ribbon cable position, then installed XP
on the new drive. D shows up in "My Computer", but when I click on it,
nothing is there, just a blank screen.

 

[VManes]

Was the old drive installed in the system when you loaded XP onto the new
drive ( could you have accidentally formatted the old drive? )

Did you partition the new drive into more than one partions? (Is what you
see as D: really the old drive?)

If you remove the new drive, can you still boot the Win98 drive? (Is it
still functional and full of old data?)

Val

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All I did was change the jumper and ribbon cable position, then installed XP
on the new drive. D shows up in "My Computer", but when I click on it,
nothing is there, just a blank screen.

 

[John Mann]

All I did was change the jumper and ribbon cable position, then installed XP
on the new drive. D shows up in "My Computer", but when I click on it,
nothing is there, just a blank screen.

Just a guess, but...what account are you logged on under when you try
to view D:? And have you assigned that account the neccessary
permissions to access the drive? Although I think that if you didn't,
you would at least get some sort of error message proclaiming "access
denied" or some such (I'm still in my early months of Windows XP Pro
usage, after having been without a computer for a couple of years; the
last OS I used before this was, as you, Windows 98 SE).

Windows XP is not Windows 98; there's a bit more to it re: permissions
and access and things of that nature.

I'm sure others here will elucidate further, in more detail than I
can.

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[JohnG]

It appears I inadvertently changed something since it returns "invalid
system disk"
when I try to boot from that disk.

Oh well. I backed up MOST of the files I needed to cd. The ones I didn't
backup weren't that important. They can be rebuilt, just is going to take a
lot of time.

Guess the next step is to format the old disk with NTFS and use it as a
backup.
Or maybe I could install LINUX on it and start learning to use it.