how to copy old programs from old 45 meg harddrive

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I have an old obsolete computer it has a dos program i need for my job in the
oilfield .I tried to set the drive as a slave on my new computer windows XP
pro installed it but did not assigned a drive letter to it. I can see the
drive in disk manager but cannot get to the files I would like to burn all
the data to a cd can any one help.thanks in advance gary t
 
Did you set both jumper pins on the hds (slave/master) correctly.If so,try
moving the drive to a slot on other IDE chain.
 
gary t said:
I have an old obsolete computer it has a dos program i need for my job in the
oilfield .I tried to set the drive as a slave on my new computer windows XP
pro installed it but did not assigned a drive letter to it. I can see the
drive in disk manager but cannot get to the files I would like to burn all
the data to a cd can any one help.thanks in advance gary t
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You must assign a drive letter to it in Disk Manager.
 
yes the jumper settings are right. i can see the drive in disk manager but it
wont let me access it or set a drive letter. when i boot to a maxtor cd it
see the drive but i cant drive to drive copy, it wants to format the drive,
I cant do this untill i get the data off
 
It would be interesting to know ***why*** you cannot set
a drive letter. Your post does not reveal the reason.

If this is a 45 MByte hard disk then it must come from a very
old DOS machine. If so then you should be able to see its
contents by booting the machine with a Win98 boot disk from
www.bootdisk.com.

Out of curiosity: Did your BIOS detect the disk properly?
What are the geometry settings (heads / cylinders / sectors)?
Do the numbers agree with the numbers printed on the hard
disk label?
 
gary t said:
I have an old obsolete computer it has a dos program i need for my job in the
oilfield .I tried to set the drive as a slave on my new computer windows XP
pro installed it but did not assigned a drive letter to it. I can see the
drive in disk manager but cannot get to the files I would like to burn all
the data to a cd can any one help.thanks in advance gary t
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Do not connect the drive as a slave to your existing IDE hard drive.
There can be compatibility issues when new drives and very old drives
are connected as master and slave on the same IDE channel.

Instead temporarily disconnect all drives from the secondary IDE
channel (normally used for CDROM, DVD, etc) and use this data cable
for your old drive. Set the jumpers on this drive for "stand alone
master drive" and you should be able to use the drive normally in
Windows.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
 
Another problem you might have is what is the pold hard drive formated in fat
16 or hpfs used on very old hp pc's
 
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