How do I view a hard drive from a win95 machine on a winxp machine

[Guest]

My mom just bought a new pc with Win XP Home, and we're trying to move her
files over from an old Win95 system. It doesn't have a floppy, and the old
system doesn't have a burner, and the old system doesn't have an eithernet
port. Direct connection through a parrallel cable fails.

We purchased PC-Relocator, but the parrallel connection doesn't work.
Neither machine sees the other.

I've taken the hard disks out, and installed them in the new system, which
after booting shows a recover partition. The old system no longer boots. Is
it possible to make XP see an old hard drive?

(I did back up the files she was most interested in to floppy, but it would
be nice if we could just install the old drives into the new PC, as she may
find other files that she wants. The salesmen for the PC suggested hooking
the drives up and copying the files when we purchased Intellimover, which we
took back when we found PC-Relocator.)

In any case, I'ld like to know if XP has destroyed the data on the drives,
so that others don't do the same stupid thing. Is there a way to get XP to
recognize the win95 hard drives with the data intact?

 

[peterk]

When you add a HD to a system as the 2nd HD you do need to change the
settings on the back of the drive to reflect that changer............from
master to slave.Then you install that drive onto the slave position of the
IDE cable.
OR if you are installing onto a 2nd IDE connection as the master then you do
not need to change the jumpers on the back.
"I've taken the hard disks out, and installed them in the new system,"
this seems to indicate you have 2 HD that you need to install into the new
system.Remember which one was hooked up as master and which as slave and use
the 2nd IDE connection to connect them in the same order.The go to the BIOS
and see if they are seen in there.Then go into XP
let us know
peterk

 

[Ron Martell]

My mom just bought a new pc with Win XP Home, and we're trying to move her
files over from an old Win95 system. It doesn't have a floppy, and the old
system doesn't have a burner, and the old system doesn't have an eithernet
port. Direct connection through a parrallel cable fails.

We purchased PC-Relocator, but the parrallel connection doesn't work.
Neither machine sees the other.

I've taken the hard disks out, and installed them in the new system, which
after booting shows a recover partition. The old system no longer boots. Is
it possible to make XP see an old hard drive?

(I did back up the files she was most interested in to floppy, but it would
be nice if we could just install the old drives into the new PC, as she may
find other files that she wants. The salesmen for the PC suggested hooking
the drives up and copying the files when we purchased Intellimover, which we
took back when we found PC-Relocator.)

In any case, I'ld like to know if XP has destroyed the data on the drives,
so that others don't do the same stupid thing. Is there a way to get XP to
recognize the win95 hard drives with the data intact?

The best way of doing this is to put the old hard drive (temporarily)
into the new PC.

In order to avoid conflicts with the existing hard drive you should
*not* try to connect the Win95 drive as a slave drive on the same IDE
channel as the new machine's drive.

Instead you should (temporarily) unplug both the data and power cables
from the CD/CDRW/DVD drive in the new computer and use these for the
temporary connection to the Windows95 hard drive. Doing it this way
avoids the possible compatibility issues that can arise when two
drives that were manufactured more than 5 years apart are connected as
master and slave on the same IDE channel.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
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