Help with Drive letter access

[Guest]

Hi,
My PC started having problems booting OLD WINXP Machine.. It eventually
would not boot up.
I bought a NEW WINXP Machine. I have put my old harddrives in it to copy
files.. They are FAT32 Format
They do not show up under my computer.. I checked the disk management
program. It shows name of Drive but no drive letter. Only option available
is delete partition.. I need option to change driver letter to work...

What can I do???

Thanks Jerry

 

[Richard Urban]

Is the drive seen correctly in the computer bios?

Are both drives on the same IDE cable? If so:

Have you set the jumpers on the primary drive as the master?

Have you set the jumpers on the secondary drive as slave?

If the drives are on independent cables, are they both set for either
master - or as a single drive on the cable (WD drives)?

Are you using a 80 wire, 40 pin IDE cable? Have you tried changing the
cable/cables?

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

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