Using old hard drive as slave in new XP system

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I'm new to this forum, so I apologize if this is already answered- I am
trying to install my old hard drive (Win2000 system) as a slave in my new XP
system. Windows won't recognize it. Obviously I don't want to reformat it
and lose the data on it. Any suggestions, or point me to the right spot for
the answer. Thanks
 
Have you changed the jumpers on the Win2k drive to make it a slave? Also,
something I personally would do... once you can see the drive, move all
important data to the new drive, format the Win2k drive to remove the
operating system information, then put all the data back on the drive. I'm
sure you could save a lot of room by doing this, but again that's just a
suggestion.
 
Yes, Tony, I did change the jumpers before I installed. Funny thing, I can
see the old drive in device manager, it says it is working correctly, but it
won't show on "My Computer" Thanks for your quick response.
 
It's possible to hide drives in My Computer, either by editing the registry
directly or using TweakUI - I don't know how this could have happened
without your knowledge, but it's something to check. The easiest way to go
about checking would be to download TweakUI from Microsoft's site and check
the Drives area (sorry I can't be more specific, on Win2k right now so can't
have TweakUI in front of me). Make sure the checkbox next to your secondary
drive letter is checked. If not, check it, close out TweakUI, and reboot
your machine; you should be seeing the drive at this time. If so, let me
know and I'll see if I can come up with anything else.
 
Thanks for the suggestion Art. I had high hopes for it. On right
clicking, the only option I have available is to delete the partition,
resulting in erasure of the data. The rest are grayed out. Eric.
 
Switch the drives and boo into W2k. Copy data to XP disk into a new folder
on the root level..
Shutdown and switch cables, jumplers back.
Boot up and check data on new drive.
Use Disk Manager to delete, create, format old drive.

SJ

My guess is the old drive was formated in some odd way or contains BIOS
overlay or off set not compatible with LBA?
 
Urekia! I think I got.
This has come up on the forum about a dozen times.

OK, you can change the drive letter on a drive but not the System drive. So
the old drive is still an active OS system drive with the drive letter C:.

In the current configuration you can't have 2 C: drives, nor can you change
the old (booted as the system drive) to another letter.
Changing the drives around would create the same condition.

So basically you need another disk temporary as the slave with your W2K as
system. copy data to the temp disk. Switch to the XP disk as system. Copy
data to the XP disk from the temp.
Replace temp disk with old w2k disk and format as with new drive letter.

With out a third disk, you could start the XP install over,
1. Use Xp CD install to delete the current partiton on the XP disk, create a
new partiton (do not format) but leave room for a second, create and format
the second as drive letter E: Pull out XP CD and turn off computer.
Put W2k hd in as C: and boot up with new drive as slave.
Copy W2k data to new drive letter E:
Shut down, take out system drive, make new disk system drive.
Make W2k drive as slave.
Boot from XP CD, delete old drive partition, create new partiton, format
with D: or F:, then select and install onto first partiton of new disk as C:
Xp reboots you should have XP on C:, data on E:, second disk as D: with
nothing on it.

SJ
 
Thanks for the idea SJ- as a matter of fact, I do have a third drive, the old
slave in the old Win2000 set up. As I understand it, you believe that since
it is not an OS drive, that XP will be able to recognize it. Worth a try.
I'll let you know tomorrow am how it worked. E.
 
Evogt said:
I'm new to this forum, so I apologize if this is already answered- I am
trying to install my old hard drive (Win2000 system) as a slave in my new XP
system. Windows won't recognize it. Obviously I don't want to reformat it
and lose the data on it.
Click to expand...

You will probably need to look for it in My Computer, r-click -
Properties, click Advanced and on the Ownership page take ownership to
your XP account
 
Thanks for the suggestion Alex. I ended up using a third disk, my old Win
2000 slave, which XP had no trouble recognizing for some reason. While not
elegant, with some jockying around of cables, I can move files into XP. Eric
 
SJ- this ended up solving my problem. XP had no difficulty recognizing my
old slave drive, for what ever reason. Thanks much for the suggestion. Eric.
 
i did the same thing, i had to set the jumpers on the back, near cable hook
ups. i set mine to cable select and used the first cable plug in on the cable
to hook up to the hard drive then the power cable.
arealmes
 
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