Win2k accessing a Windows 98 disk drive

[Archie Campbell]

My old Windows 98 machine finally died.

There are some files on the Win98 drive that I would like to transfer over
to my Win2kPro machine.

I changed the jumpers on the Win98 drive to "Slave" and plugged it into my
Win2kPro machine.
The drive is recognized as E, but it is seen as being unformatted.
Properties shows 'unknown file format'.

Is there anything I can do to make the info on the old Win98 drive readable
by the Win2kPro machine.

Thanks
Archie Campbell

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

My old Windows 98 machine finally died.

There are some files on the Win98 drive that I would like to transfer over
to my Win2kPro machine.

I changed the jumpers on the Win98 drive to "Slave" and plugged it into my
Win2kPro machine.
The drive is recognized as E, but it is seen as being unformatted.
Properties shows 'unknown file format'.

Is there anything I can do to make the info on the old Win98 drive readable
by the Win2kPro machine.

Thanks
Archie Campbell

Windows 2000 can read FAT and FAT32 partitions (which is what
Windows 98 uses). I can think of several reasons why your
Win2000 PC is unable to read the disk from the Win98 PC:
- You did not tell the BIOS what type disk this is, or
- The disk uses some proprietary data compression scheme, or
- The disk is damaged.
from the Win98 PC then it'

 

[Archie Campbell]

Thanks Pegasus
Will check it out.
Archie

Windows 2000 can read FAT and FAT32 partitions (which is what
Windows 98 uses). I can think of several reasons why your
Win2000 PC is unable to read the disk from the Win98 PC:
- You did not tell the BIOS what type disk this is, or
- The disk uses some proprietary data compression scheme, or
- The disk is damaged.
from the Win98 PC then it'