WinXP not seeing slave disk properly - please help !!

[Guest]

Hi

I've just loaded WinXP Pro onto a new, clean disk using NTFS and it's all
gone
fine. But I have also connected a second hard disk, full of data, which was
my old Win98 disk (thus formatted in FAT32). This Win 98 disk is connected
as the
slave to the new Win XP master. The slave (Win 98) disk shows up in Disk
Management and in the device manager, but not in My computer or Explorer.
Disk Management shows it as "healthy" "active" and "online", yet there's
only one option available when you right-click the drive and that is "delete
partition".

I don't want to boot from this disk, or use Win98 on it - but I do want to
access
some files on it (i.e. copy across to new disk). How can I get this disk to
show up and be accessible as the slave to the new WinXP system ??? It
clearly knows it's there, but won't make it accessible........

Any help gratefully received.......

 

[Duke]

Have you tried getting another IDE cable, change the
jumper on the win98 hard drive and connecting that cable
to the second IDE port on the motherboard ?
(If you have a CD / DVD Drive connected on this port just
use this cable) The problem might be that the new winxp
drive which is formatted as NTFS, cannot coexist with the
win98 disk formatted as Fat32. Anyway try it just to see
if that will get the desired results.
Good Luck

 

[Ross Durie]

Crap.

--
Ross

Have you tried getting another IDE cable, change the
jumper on the win98 hard drive and connecting that cable
to the second IDE port on the motherboard ?
(If you have a CD / DVD Drive connected on this port just
use this cable) The problem might be that the new winxp
drive which is formatted as NTFS, cannot coexist with the
win98 disk formatted as Fat32. Anyway try it just to see
if that will get the desired results.
Good Luck