Paul
December 7th 03, 10:51 AM
Also, don't forget to go into CMOS setup and enable the drive. Many computers
are configured for only the drives that are currently connected to the system.
If you add an additional drive, you need to go into BIOS and tell the mobo to
look at that controller/channel for the new drive and tell it what size it is
(usually easier to use the auto-scan feature available on many boards). If you
don't then the drive won't be available to the OS.
This is also one way of keep drives "hidden" from each other so you could load
different OS' and they won't touch the other drives (i.e. Drive one is enabled.
Windows is loaded. Drive one is disabled. Drive two is enabled. Solaris is
loaded. Now you can run one without the other seeing the others drive by going
into CMOS and enabling the one you want. The down side is that some boards will
only boot from the Primary/Master drive so this would not work on all boards).
"Alvin A Brown" > wrote in message
...
> Hello
>
> If you jumper the drive correctly on the XP box and
> make sure that the jumper is set to slave there should
> be no problems to read the drive. Check your jumpers
> settings on the drive
>
> Alvin
>
>
> Aileen wrote:
>
> > I have a hard drive with stuff already on it (stuff I
> > need) that was created using 98. I am using xp
> > currently, and would like to install that old drive into
> > my xp system, but... when I do... the xp system does not
> > recognize the files and they are not accessible. I put
> > it back in the old system and they are all there and work
> > fine. What can I do to read the files thru this system,
> > short of networking and copying to another drive?
>
are configured for only the drives that are currently connected to the system.
If you add an additional drive, you need to go into BIOS and tell the mobo to
look at that controller/channel for the new drive and tell it what size it is
(usually easier to use the auto-scan feature available on many boards). If you
don't then the drive won't be available to the OS.
This is also one way of keep drives "hidden" from each other so you could load
different OS' and they won't touch the other drives (i.e. Drive one is enabled.
Windows is loaded. Drive one is disabled. Drive two is enabled. Solaris is
loaded. Now you can run one without the other seeing the others drive by going
into CMOS and enabling the one you want. The down side is that some boards will
only boot from the Primary/Master drive so this would not work on all boards).
"Alvin A Brown" > wrote in message
...
> Hello
>
> If you jumper the drive correctly on the XP box and
> make sure that the jumper is set to slave there should
> be no problems to read the drive. Check your jumpers
> settings on the drive
>
> Alvin
>
>
> Aileen wrote:
>
> > I have a hard drive with stuff already on it (stuff I
> > need) that was created using 98. I am using xp
> > currently, and would like to install that old drive into
> > my xp system, but... when I do... the xp system does not
> > recognize the files and they are not accessible. I put
> > it back in the old system and they are all there and work
> > fine. What can I do to read the files thru this system,
> > short of networking and copying to another drive?
>