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Hard Drive Not recognize by XP

Nov 10, 2004 11:13AM PST

I have a new computer with OS Windows XP Home Edition, I'm trying to install my old hard drive OS WIN 98 SE, so I can swap files, the Bios recognize , and the Disk Management of XP show the disk and says it is active and "healthy", but It does'nt show on My Pc, or any other place. What can I do??? Thanks for the Help!!

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What letter is assigned to it in Disk Mgt??
Nov 10, 2004 11:26AM PST

So it does not show in My Computer??

Not sure why it shows in Disk Mgt if this problem, but in your original computer it was probably the Master and yuu're now using it as a slave. The new one is probably using cable select and the new 80 conductor cable, so try setting the jumper on the old drive to cable select, and connect to the grey [gray??] connector on the Primary IDE ribbon cable.

Just a WAG.

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Re: Hard Drive Not recognize by XP
Nov 10, 2004 8:20PM PST

This is quite frequently caused by using a 3rd party partitioning program to allow large drives to be recognized by older computers. If you used Disk Manager or EZ Drive to partition the drive then you need to run that software to get the data recognized.

Best bet in those cases is to network the old drive from the original system to the new one and copy the files over the network. Then wipe the drive out completely (repartition) if you want to use it with XP.

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Re: Hard Drive Not recognize by XP
Nov 12, 2004 6:05AM PST

Okay my dad had a similar problem. The HD has to be in NTFS format not FAT for windows XP to recognize it.
You also have to install the latest drivers for your particular hard drive- which was his problem. Once you do that, you should be able to restart your computer and the hard drive should be recognized. I assume then you can delete windows 98 se if you haven't already from your computer.

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Sorry.... wrong direction. NTFS will recognize FAT 32
Nov 12, 2004 6:14AM PST

Better than even chance that old drive has DDO installed on it. Networking will be the only way to recover the files.

Happy