Adding Second HD

[Kim]

I took the hard drive from my Windows 98 computer and put
it in my Windows XP computer as a slave. In disk
management I can see the drive, but it is not assigned a
letter. When I right-click on the drive, the option
to "assign drive letter" is greyed out. What am I doing
wrong? The Windows 98 HD has all my kids' homework on
it, so I need to be able to access it.

TIA.
Kim

 

[Wayne B.]

Try going back into 'Disk Management' and right clicking
it, then choose 'rescan disks'. If you still can't assign
it a letter, check the jumpers on both of your drives and
make sure that the settings are correct. Some drives, you
have to change the jumper on the original 'master' when
you install a 'slave'.

 

[S.Sengupta]

Hi,
Check the jumpers,also check at the BIOS.
regards,
ssg MS-MVP
pronetworks.org

 

[Frank Jelenko]

Should work. You did change the jumper settings on the second hard drive?

 

[MedRxMan]

Just a guess,
Is one drive formatted as FAT 32 and the other drive FAT 16 ?

 

[Guest]

Frustrating! In disk management I can see the drive. It
is divided 128 GB Healthy (Unknown Partition) and 24.67
GB (Unallocated). I can partition the unallocated
portion and give it a drive letter (E, but it won't let
me do anything with the 128 GB portion.

Thanks for your ideas.
Kim

 

[Plato]

I took the hard drive from my Windows 98 computer and put
it in my Windows XP computer as a slave. In disk
management I can see the drive, but it is not assigned a
letter. When I right-click on the drive, the option

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=309000

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

In

Just a guess,
Is one drive formatted as FAT 32 and the other drive FAT 16 ?

If it were, that wouldn't present any obstacle to seeing them.
Windows XP can see NTFS, FAT32, FAT16, and FAT12 in any and all
combinations.