File Transfer Help Needed

[Robert Shiarella]

Can someone please tell me how to temporarily install my old hard drive in
my new XP machine so I can transfer personal files to my new machine? No
matter how I hook it up it installs as a Secondary Slave and Explorer shows
it to be empty. The old disk files are FAT32. My direct cabe File Transfer
Wizard is painfully slow and hangs at the point of transfer.
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Rob

 

[Menno Hershberger]

Can someone please tell me how to temporarily install my old hard
drive in my new XP machine so I can transfer personal files to my new
machine? No matter how I hook it up it installs as a Secondary Slave
and Explorer shows it to be empty. The old disk files are FAT32. My
direct cabe File Transfer Wizard is painfully slow and hangs at the
point of transfer. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Rob

How do you have the jumper set? Have you got it on the Primary or the
Secondary controller. If you have the jumper set for slave and have it
hooked on to the primary ide with your main drive, then it should show up
that way. If your CD drive is on the secondary ide port, you could just
unhook that and then put your old drive on that and jumper it as master.
XP shouldn't have any problems reading it as FAT 32.

 

[Vagabond Software]

Well, let's start with what you have probably already done. XP should have
no trouble recognizing your FAT32 disks.

I'm assuming you have your regular hard drive jumpered as the master on the
primary IDE channel along with a CD/DVD drive jumpered as a slave.

On your old hard drive, especially if it is a Western Digital, pull the
little jumper off entirely and attach it to the Secondary IDE channel.
Again, this is assuming it is the ONLY device on the secondary channel.

- carl

 

[LOSTSOUL]

YES YOU DO GOT A BIG PROBLEM HERE

XP WANT PICK UP OTHER HARD DRIVES WITH A NOTHER OPERATING
SYSTEM ON IT LESS IT W-2000 BELIEVE THIS IS WHAT I HAVE
SEEN IN M/S

GO TO THIS SITE AND READ DATA




http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;
[ln];winxp

http://www.computerhope.com/fat32.htm
http://www.computerhope.com/help/hdd.htm
http://www.computerhope.com/winxpqa.htm