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Using old hard drive as slave in new XP system
I'm new to this forum, so I apologize if this is already answered- I am
trying to install my old hard drive (Win2000 system) as a slave in my new XP system. Windows won't recognize it. Obviously I don't want to reformat it and lose the data on it. Any suggestions, or point me to the right spot for the answer. Thanks |
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Using old hard drive as slave in new XP system
Have you changed the jumpers on the Win2k drive to make it a slave? Also,
something I personally would do... once you can see the drive, move all important data to the new drive, format the Win2k drive to remove the operating system information, then put all the data back on the drive. I'm sure you could save a lot of room by doing this, but again that's just a suggestion. -- Tony Talmage "Evogt" wrote in message ... I'm new to this forum, so I apologize if this is already answered- I am trying to install my old hard drive (Win2000 system) as a slave in my new XP system. Windows won't recognize it. Obviously I don't want to reformat it and lose the data on it. Any suggestions, or point me to the right spot for the answer. Thanks |
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Yes, Tony, I did change the jumpers before I installed. Funny thing, I can
see the old drive in device manager, it says it is working correctly, but it won't show on "My Computer" Thanks for your quick response. "Tony Talmage" wrote: Have you changed the jumpers on the Win2k drive to make it a slave? Also, something I personally would do... once you can see the drive, move all important data to the new drive, format the Win2k drive to remove the operating system information, then put all the data back on the drive. I'm sure you could save a lot of room by doing this, but again that's just a suggestion. -- Tony Talmage "Evogt" wrote in message ... I'm new to this forum, so I apologize if this is already answered- I am trying to install my old hard drive (Win2000 system) as a slave in my new XP system. Windows won't recognize it. Obviously I don't want to reformat it and lose the data on it. Any suggestions, or point me to the right spot for the answer. Thanks |
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It's possible to hide drives in My Computer, either by editing the registry
directly or using TweakUI - I don't know how this could have happened without your knowledge, but it's something to check. The easiest way to go about checking would be to download TweakUI from Microsoft's site and check the Drives area (sorry I can't be more specific, on Win2k right now so can't have TweakUI in front of me). Make sure the checkbox next to your secondary drive letter is checked. If not, check it, close out TweakUI, and reboot your machine; you should be seeing the drive at this time. If so, let me know and I'll see if I can come up with anything else. -- Tony Talmage "Evogt" wrote in message ... Yes, Tony, I did change the jumpers before I installed. Funny thing, I can see the old drive in device manager, it says it is working correctly, but it won't show on "My Computer" Thanks for your quick response. "Tony Talmage" wrote: Have you changed the jumpers on the Win2k drive to make it a slave? Also, something I personally would do... once you can see the drive, move all important data to the new drive, format the Win2k drive to remove the operating system information, then put all the data back on the drive. I'm sure you could save a lot of room by doing this, but again that's just a suggestion. -- Tony Talmage "Evogt" wrote in message ... I'm new to this forum, so I apologize if this is already answered- I am trying to install my old hard drive (Win2000 system) as a slave in my new XP system. Windows won't recognize it. Obviously I don't want to reformat it and lose the data on it. Any suggestions, or point me to the right spot for the answer. Thanks |
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"Evogt" wrote in message
... I'm new to this forum, so I apologize if this is already answered- I am trying to install my old hard drive (Win2000 system) as a slave in my new XP system. Windows won't recognize it. Obviously I don't want to reformat it and lose the data on it. Any suggestions, or point me to the right spot for the answer. Thanks "Tony Talmage" wrote: Have you changed the jumpers on the Win2k drive to make it a slave? Also, something I personally would do... once you can see the drive, move all important data to the new drive, format the Win2k drive to remove the operating system information, then put all the data back on the drive. I'm sure you could save a lot of room by doing this, but again that's just a suggestion. -- Tony Talmage "Evogt" wrote in message ... Yes, Tony, I did change the jumpers before I installed. Funny thing, I can see the old drive in device manager, it says it is working correctly, but it won't show on "My Computer" Thanks for your quick response. Evogt: Check in Disk Management (Start right-click My Computer Manage Disk Management) to see if the drive is listed and has been assigned a drive letter. I've run into a few situations where, for reasons I can't explain, XP has not assigned a drive letter to a newly-installed drive. If that's the case, simply right-click on the drive and select the option to assign a drive letter. Art |
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Thanks for the suggestion Art. I had high hopes for it. On right clicking, the only option I have available is to delete the partition, resulting in erasure of the data. The rest are grayed out. Eric. "Art" wrote: "Evogt" wrote in message ... I'm new to this forum, so I apologize if this is already answered- I am trying to install my old hard drive (Win2000 system) as a slave in my new XP system. Windows won't recognize it. Obviously I don't want to reformat it and lose the data on it. Any suggestions, or point me to the right spot for the answer. Thanks "Tony Talmage" wrote: Have you changed the jumpers on the Win2k drive to make it a slave? Also, something I personally would do... once you can see the drive, move all important data to the new drive, format the Win2k drive to remove the operating system information, then put all the data back on the drive. I'm sure you could save a lot of room by doing this, but again that's just a suggestion. -- Tony Talmage "Evogt" wrote in message ... Yes, Tony, I did change the jumpers before I installed. Funny thing, I can see the old drive in device manager, it says it is working correctly, but it won't show on "My Computer" Thanks for your quick response. Evogt: Check in Disk Management (Start right-click My Computer Manage Disk Management) to see if the drive is listed and has been assigned a drive letter. I've run into a few situations where, for reasons I can't explain, XP has not assigned a drive letter to a newly-installed drive. If that's the case, simply right-click on the drive and select the option to assign a drive letter. Art |
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Switch the drives and boo into W2k. Copy data to XP disk into a new folder
on the root level.. Shutdown and switch cables, jumplers back. Boot up and check data on new drive. Use Disk Manager to delete, create, format old drive. SJ My guess is the old drive was formated in some odd way or contains BIOS overlay or off set not compatible with LBA? "Evogt" wrote in message ... I'm new to this forum, so I apologize if this is already answered- I am trying to install my old hard drive (Win2000 system) as a slave in my new XP system. Windows won't recognize it. Obviously I don't want to reformat it and lose the data on it. Any suggestions, or point me to the right spot for the answer. Thanks |
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Urekia! I think I got.
This has come up on the forum about a dozen times. OK, you can change the drive letter on a drive but not the System drive. So the old drive is still an active OS system drive with the drive letter C:. In the current configuration you can't have 2 C: drives, nor can you change the old (booted as the system drive) to another letter. Changing the drives around would create the same condition. So basically you need another disk temporary as the slave with your W2K as system. copy data to the temp disk. Switch to the XP disk as system. Copy data to the XP disk from the temp. Replace temp disk with old w2k disk and format as with new drive letter. With out a third disk, you could start the XP install over, 1. Use Xp CD install to delete the current partiton on the XP disk, create a new partiton (do not format) but leave room for a second, create and format the second as drive letter E: Pull out XP CD and turn off computer. Put W2k hd in as C: and boot up with new drive as slave. Copy W2k data to new drive letter E: Shut down, take out system drive, make new disk system drive. Make W2k drive as slave. Boot from XP CD, delete old drive partition, create new partiton, format with D: or F:, then select and install onto first partiton of new disk as C: Xp reboots you should have XP on C:, data on E:, second disk as D: with nothing on it. SJ "Evogt" wrote in message ... I'm new to this forum, so I apologize if this is already answered- I am trying to install my old hard drive (Win2000 system) as a slave in my new XP system. Windows won't recognize it. Obviously I don't want to reformat it and lose the data on it. Any suggestions, or point me to the right spot for the answer. Thanks |
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Thanks for the idea SJ- as a matter of fact, I do have a third drive, the old
slave in the old Win2000 set up. As I understand it, you believe that since it is not an OS drive, that XP will be able to recognize it. Worth a try. I'll let you know tomorrow am how it worked. E. "SlowJet" wrote: Urekia! I think I got. This has come up on the forum about a dozen times. OK, you can change the drive letter on a drive but not the System drive. So the old drive is still an active OS system drive with the drive letter C:. In the current configuration you can't have 2 C: drives, nor can you change the old (booted as the system drive) to another letter. Changing the drives around would create the same condition. So basically you need another disk temporary as the slave with your W2K as system. copy data to the temp disk. Switch to the XP disk as system. Copy data to the XP disk from the temp. Replace temp disk with old w2k disk and format as with new drive letter. With out a third disk, you could start the XP install over, 1. Use Xp CD install to delete the current partiton on the XP disk, create a new partiton (do not format) but leave room for a second, create and format the second as drive letter E: Pull out XP CD and turn off computer. Put W2k hd in as C: and boot up with new drive as slave. Copy W2k data to new drive letter E: Shut down, take out system drive, make new disk system drive. Make W2k drive as slave. Boot from XP CD, delete old drive partition, create new partiton, format with D: or F:, then select and install onto first partiton of new disk as C: Xp reboots you should have XP on C:, data on E:, second disk as D: with nothing on it. SJ "Evogt" wrote in message ... I'm new to this forum, so I apologize if this is already answered- I am trying to install my old hard drive (Win2000 system) as a slave in my new XP system. Windows won't recognize it. Obviously I don't want to reformat it and lose the data on it. Any suggestions, or point me to the right spot for the answer. Thanks |
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Evogt wrote:
I'm new to this forum, so I apologize if this is already answered- I am trying to install my old hard drive (Win2000 system) as a slave in my new XP system. Windows won't recognize it. Obviously I don't want to reformat it and lose the data on it. You will probably need to look for it in My Computer, r-click - Properties, click Advanced and on the Ownership page take ownership to your XP account -- Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies) Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit) |
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Thanks for the suggestion Alex. I ended up using a third disk, my old Win 2000 slave, which XP had no trouble recognizing for some reason. While not elegant, with some jockying around of cables, I can move files into XP. Eric "Alex Nichol" wrote: Evogt wrote: I'm new to this forum, so I apologize if this is already answered- I am trying to install my old hard drive (Win2000 system) as a slave in my new XP system. Windows won't recognize it. Obviously I don't want to reformat it and lose the data on it. You will probably need to look for it in My Computer, r-click - Properties, click Advanced and on the Ownership page take ownership to your XP account -- Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies) Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit) |
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SJ- this ended up solving my problem. XP had no difficulty recognizing my old slave drive, for what ever reason. Thanks much for the suggestion. Eric. "SlowJet" wrote: Urekia! I think I got. This has come up on the forum about a dozen times. OK, you can change the drive letter on a drive but not the System drive. So the old drive is still an active OS system drive with the drive letter C:. In the current configuration you can't have 2 C: drives, nor can you change the old (booted as the system drive) to another letter. Changing the drives around would create the same condition. So basically you need another disk temporary as the slave with your W2K as system. copy data to the temp disk. Switch to the XP disk as system. Copy data to the XP disk from the temp. Replace temp disk with old w2k disk and format as with new drive letter. With out a third disk, you could start the XP install over, 1. Use Xp CD install to delete the current partiton on the XP disk, create a new partiton (do not format) but leave room for a second, create and format the second as drive letter E: Pull out XP CD and turn off computer. Put W2k hd in as C: and boot up with new drive as slave. Copy W2k data to new drive letter E: Shut down, take out system drive, make new disk system drive. Make W2k drive as slave. Boot from XP CD, delete old drive partition, create new partiton, format with D: or F:, then select and install onto first partiton of new disk as C: Xp reboots you should have XP on C:, data on E:, second disk as D: with nothing on it. SJ "Evogt" wrote in message ... I'm new to this forum, so I apologize if this is already answered- I am trying to install my old hard drive (Win2000 system) as a slave in my new XP system. Windows won't recognize it. Obviously I don't want to reformat it and lose the data on it. Any suggestions, or point me to the right spot for the answer. Thanks |
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You are very welcome, Eric.
"Cable Intensive" data recovery. lol I like that. SJ "Evogt" wrote in message ... SJ- this ended up solving my problem. XP had no difficulty recognizing my old slave drive, for what ever reason. Thanks much for the suggestion. Eric. "SlowJet" wrote: Urekia! I think I got. This has come up on the forum about a dozen times. OK, you can change the drive letter on a drive but not the System drive. So the old drive is still an active OS system drive with the drive letter C:. In the current configuration you can't have 2 C: drives, nor can you change the old (booted as the system drive) to another letter. Changing the drives around would create the same condition. So basically you need another disk temporary as the slave with your W2K as system. copy data to the temp disk. Switch to the XP disk as system. Copy data to the XP disk from the temp. Replace temp disk with old w2k disk and format as with new drive letter. With out a third disk, you could start the XP install over, 1. Use Xp CD install to delete the current partiton on the XP disk, create a new partiton (do not format) but leave room for a second, create and format the second as drive letter E: Pull out XP CD and turn off computer. Put W2k hd in as C: and boot up with new drive as slave. Copy W2k data to new drive letter E: Shut down, take out system drive, make new disk system drive. Make W2k drive as slave. Boot from XP CD, delete old drive partition, create new partiton, format with D: or F:, then select and install onto first partiton of new disk as C: Xp reboots you should have XP on C:, data on E:, second disk as D: with nothing on it. SJ "Evogt" wrote in message ... I'm new to this forum, so I apologize if this is already answered- I am trying to install my old hard drive (Win2000 system) as a slave in my new XP system. Windows won't recognize it. Obviously I don't want to reformat it and lose the data on it. Any suggestions, or point me to the right spot for the answer. Thanks |
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i did the same thing, i had to set the jumpers on the back, near cable hook
ups. i set mine to cable select and used the first cable plug in on the cable to hook up to the hard drive then the power cable. arealmes "Evogt" wrote: I'm new to this forum, so I apologize if this is already answered- I am trying to install my old hard drive (Win2000 system) as a slave in my new XP system. Windows won't recognize it. Obviously I don't want to reformat it and lose the data on it. Any suggestions, or point me to the right spot for the answer. Thanks |
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