Jim Wallace
December 8th 03, 09:05 PM
I have a new computer with Windows XP Home Ed. and
PATA/100 160 GB Maxtor. I also had an older computer with
a PATA/100 120 GB WD, which had Windows XP Home Ed.
installed and several years of data files.
My old PC took a power surge that fried the PIII
motherboard, which is why I bought a new P4 PC. I would
like to retrieve some of the data files from the old drive
and migrate them to the new drive, then use the old drive
as a backup device.
Here's my problem:
1. I installed the old drive as the primary slave on the
PATA/100 cable. BIOS and Windows both recognized the WD
drive, but it never showed up in Windows Explorer. I went
into Drive Manager and saw that it was listed as Drive 1,
w/1 ~120 GB partion, NTFS, Healthy(Active), however the
only options available when I right-click on it are Remove
Partion (it actually used to have 2 partions, but only 1
is visible) and Help; all others are greyed out.
2. I tried booting from Windows XP CD and going into
Repair Exiting Installation. Both drives show up in MAP.
I ran chkdsk /r on the WD drive and after about an hour
got a report that chkdsk had repaired one or more
problems. I can run dir on the drive when I've booted
from the CD and see the directories and data, but in 8.3
format.
3. Even after the chkdsk repair, the WD drive is still
not usable from inside Windows.
Questions:
1. Is there a utility that I can use that will allow me
to selectively migrate files and some directories from the
WD to the Maxtor drive? I'm OK with running it in DOS
mode from a boot disk, but I do want to preserve the long
file/directory names.
2. After I've recoved the files/directories I want, what
is the best way to prepare the drive so that Windows XP
will be able to use it? I want to install 2 partions on
it which will both be NTFS. Will Drive Manager do this
for me, or do I need to run fdisk?
Sorry this was so long, but I wanted to clearly explain
the issues.
Thanks,
Jim
PATA/100 160 GB Maxtor. I also had an older computer with
a PATA/100 120 GB WD, which had Windows XP Home Ed.
installed and several years of data files.
My old PC took a power surge that fried the PIII
motherboard, which is why I bought a new P4 PC. I would
like to retrieve some of the data files from the old drive
and migrate them to the new drive, then use the old drive
as a backup device.
Here's my problem:
1. I installed the old drive as the primary slave on the
PATA/100 cable. BIOS and Windows both recognized the WD
drive, but it never showed up in Windows Explorer. I went
into Drive Manager and saw that it was listed as Drive 1,
w/1 ~120 GB partion, NTFS, Healthy(Active), however the
only options available when I right-click on it are Remove
Partion (it actually used to have 2 partions, but only 1
is visible) and Help; all others are greyed out.
2. I tried booting from Windows XP CD and going into
Repair Exiting Installation. Both drives show up in MAP.
I ran chkdsk /r on the WD drive and after about an hour
got a report that chkdsk had repaired one or more
problems. I can run dir on the drive when I've booted
from the CD and see the directories and data, but in 8.3
format.
3. Even after the chkdsk repair, the WD drive is still
not usable from inside Windows.
Questions:
1. Is there a utility that I can use that will allow me
to selectively migrate files and some directories from the
WD to the Maxtor drive? I'm OK with running it in DOS
mode from a boot disk, but I do want to preserve the long
file/directory names.
2. After I've recoved the files/directories I want, what
is the best way to prepare the drive so that Windows XP
will be able to use it? I want to install 2 partions on
it which will both be NTFS. Will Drive Manager do this
for me, or do I need to run fdisk?
Sorry this was so long, but I wanted to clearly explain
the issues.
Thanks,
Jim