another Fails to Boot one

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Greigw

Hi all,
Have been succesfully using an upgrade to XP (from 98) on
a 30GB volume for about a year. Yesterday XP failed to
load and boot sequence results in command line reporting
that none of the command line boot files (config.sys etc)
are visible. Using a Millenium boot floppy created using
another pc running XP I can access what used to be the C:
drive.
I disconnected the hard disk and installed a new 80GB
one. Went through the setup of a new installation of XP
successfully having formatted the whole volume using NTFS
as C:. My plan was to then connect up the original disk
as a slave and copy over all the data I want to save and I
would have a brand new installation and all my files from
the old drive. The problem is that although the bios has
correctly identified the old drive as a slave XP can not
see it. Can anyone explain this to me and/or give me some
idea as to how to get my data off the old drive?
Ta
G.
 
If the old install was an upgrade from '98 then it will be a FAT32 drive.
Your new installation is using NTFS so that is probably why it can't
recognise the old drive.

Jas
 
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Jason Amess said:
If the old install was an upgrade from '98 then it will be a FAT32
drive. Your new installation is using NTFS so that is probably why it
can't recognise the old drive.
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No, this isn't at all correct. Windows XP can see NTFS, FAT32,
FAT16, and FAT12 in any and all combinations, regardless of what
file system it itself is installed on.
 
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