Help please saving files from one hard drive to another

[John C]

I have a problem with a computer with XP on it and I may need to save files
from its hard drive onto a second computer running windows 98, I looked up
the jumper settings on the western digital site for XP hard drive and set it
to slave settings, and installed in the machine running 98, but I could not
find the slave drive at all, I have tried the slave drive at the end of the
cable and in the middle, the original c drive is there but not the slave.

Thanks in advance.

John

 

[Jon W.]

I have a problem with a computer with XP on it and I may need to save files
from its hard drive onto a second computer running windows 98, I looked up
the jumper settings on the western digital site for XP hard drive and set it
to slave settings, and installed in the machine running 98, but I could not
find the slave drive at all, I have tried the slave drive at the end of the
cable and in the middle, the original c drive is there but not the slave.

Thanks in advance.

John

John, Is the Windows XP drive formatted using NTFS? If so, you will
not be able to access any files on it if you install it on a PC
running Windows '98

J.W.

 

[here_and_there]

I have a problem with a computer with XP on it and I may need to save files
from its hard drive onto a second computer running windows 98, I looked up
the jumper settings on the western digital site for XP hard drive and set it
to slave settings, and installed in the machine running 98, but I could not
find the slave drive at all, I have tried the slave drive at the end of the
cable and in the middle, the original c drive is there but not the slave.

Thanks in advance.

John

Try doing it the other way. Put the Win98 hard drive into the XP
machine as a slave. WinXP can read Win98 files but Win98 cannot read
WinXP when XP uses NTFS file format

 

[John C]

Jon

Yes it is using NTFS, I do have a laptop that is using XP do you know how I
can transfer files to this directly from the hard drive that is at present
removed from the computer.

John

 

[Jon W.]

Is your laptop's file system NTFS? If so, you may be able to access
through a network connection. I take it you are trying to save files
from the hard drive that has XP on it, formatted with the NTFS file
system? If so, you need to find a PC with NTFS file system and install
your hard drive as the slave and copy the files/folders you want to
save, then burn them to a CD. You will probably need to get another
hard drive, install it in your 98 machine and reload Windows XP on it,
using the NTFS file system.

J.W.

 

[Jeff]

Hi John C,

You can connect your hard drive to your laptop by using a
hard drive cradle. They sell around $30 to $60. You put
your hard drive in the cradle and can usually connect to a
USB or Firewire port on the Laptop or Desktop. I use one
myself, have 120 Gig hard drive in the cradle attached to
my notebook as an external storage.

Jeff

 

[here_and_there]

Is your laptop's file system NTFS? If so, you may be able to access
through a network connection. I take it you are trying to save files
from the hard drive that has XP on it, formatted with the NTFS file
system? If so, you need to find a PC with NTFS file system and install
your hard drive as the slave and copy the files/folders you want to
save, then burn them to a CD. You will probably need to get another
hard drive, install it in your 98 machine and reload Windows XP on it,
using the NTFS file system.

J.W.

If he can access througha network connection, it makes no difference
what file system is used on each computer. A machine running Win98
(FAT32) can exchange files with a machine running WinXP (NTFS) with no
problems once a network connection is established

 

[VManes]

If you can't put the 98 drive in the XP box as someone else suggested, there
are some third party drivers that will allow you to access the NTFS drive in
the 98 box.

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/ntfswin98.shtml is one, some
googling may find others.


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I have a problem with a computer with XP on it and I may need to save files
from its hard drive onto a second computer running windows 98, I looked up
the jumper settings on the western digital site for XP hard drive and set it
to slave settings, and installed in the machine running 98, but I could not
find the slave drive at all, I have tried the slave drive at the end of the
cable and in the middle, the original c drive is there but not the slave.

Thanks in advance.

John

 

[John C]

The problem I have is with the XP computer that will not boot up a file is
missing, I have tried to run the repair consul but no luck so far.

John

 

[John C]

When I put the XP hard drive in the 98 box I get the same error message as I
did in the XP box, it has beeen mentioned that I may be able somehow use dos
to save the files from the XP hard drive but I have not got a clue about
this.

John

 

[XMan]

Download READNTFS. This will allow you to access NTFS partitions from DOS, allowing
you to copy NTFS files to a FAT32 partition.

http://www.bootdisk.com/txtfiles/readntfs.htm
http://www.bootdisk.com/kay/readntfs.zip

 

[Alex Nichol]

Is your laptop's file system NTFS? If so, you may be able to access
through a network connection. I

Over a network it does not matter whether the other end is using NTFS or
not. The network software reads from whatever system is used at the
source and writes in whatever is in use at the receiver. The files do
not change, only the way they are stored. All you might lose is
auxiliary 'metadata' stored in NTFS, but that is unlikely to be of
importance