Use of hard disk from old system

[John Garrison]

I am having a problem in setting up XP Pro on a new system
with a new hard disk and a used hard disk from a Win 98
system. Both hard disks are recognized and listed by Disk
Management. The new hard disk partitions and assigns
disk letters to each partition fine. The disk moved from
the Win 98 system, although recognized and listed, does
not list its partitions. The Disk Manager will only allow
viewing of the properties.

Assistance will be appreciated.

 

[Ron Martell]

I am having a problem in setting up XP Pro on a new system
with a new hard disk and a used hard disk from a Win 98
system. Both hard disks are recognized and listed by Disk
Management. The new hard disk partitions and assigns
disk letters to each partition fine. The disk moved from
the Win 98 system, although recognized and listed, does
not list its partitions. The Disk Manager will only allow
viewing of the properties.

Assistance will be appreciated.

How do you have the drives connected? As master and slave on the same
IDE channel?

Try, temporarily at least, reconnecting and rejumpering the drives so
that the new drive is master on the primary IDE channel and the old
drive is master on the secondary IDE channel.

See if that works. Sometimes drives from different manufacturers
have problems working together as master & slave, especially when
there are a number of years between the manufacturing dates of the two
drives.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."

 

[ScottC]

I'm having nearly the same problem, except mine doesn't even assign a drive letter for the Win98 disk.

I think I'm going to give up and just use an external USB flash device to move my files from the old to the new disk. Thankfully I don't have that many. It would be a pain if I had many gigs to move.

Scott