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Hi,
Hopefully someone can help ?
I originally had this PC running Win98 SE, but wanted to add more space and upgrade to XP Pro. I bought new Western Digital HDD, and installed XP Pro no probs. I have just tried installing old Win 98 HDD as a slave to transfer files etc.. but its not found in XP when I look in Windows Explorer. I've tried setting jumpers on new HDD as master, and old one as slave. I've also tried cable select, and have IDE cable connected correctly, both power connections seem ok. The old HDD with Win 98 is still ok because when I reconnect it to master connector on IDE cable with jumpers set for cable select and disconnect new XP HDD it will still boot in Win 98. Could it be faulty slave connector on IDE cable or something else ? Any suggestions gratefully received..
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Hi,
Thanks for reply..
I don't really know much about BIOS. Before installing XP Pro on new HDD I only went in to check boot sequence, which was 1.FDD 2.CD-ROM 3. HDD. Since the install of XP Pro I've not looked at it and wouldn't know what to look for.
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What kind of machine? This can be important.
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The original PC spec is a UK supplied Gateway Essential 933. I don't who actually manufactured the motherboard ?
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You say you don't know much about the bios. Some bios programs can be "locked," and will not auto detect drives on startup. Have you gone in and looked at the drive settings to see if the drive is being detected in bios?
I'd go back to your original settings---slave jumpers on the second drive.
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put the old HDD on the 2ndary channel, don't pair it up with the new HDD...& do NOT use cable select
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Hi, thanks for the replies so far.
I've checked the Bios as suggested and my old HDD is shown there as a primary slave, with the new HDD shown as primary master. I've now also checked in 'Disk Management' and it is seen there, but has no drive letter assigned to it. It's showing up as Basic,FAT32, Healthy(active), online. When I right click all options except 'delete partition' appear greyed out, which I don't want to do because all my old data will be lost presumably ?
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This is my "exact" problem. I can see the slave drive in Disk
Management, no letter, and the field to assign it a letter is
grayed out.How do I assign a letter to a secondary drive in Windows 98?
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Hi Richie,
Try outting the slave on the secondary IDE by itself.
Chris,
You need to post on the w9x forum. I don't think you can assign drive letters in w98. Boot in DOS and:
fdisk /status
It will tell you what drives, partitions and drive letters are there. If DOS doesn't see it, w98 won't either.
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.M2
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Hi,
Thanks for sticking with me..
The operating system (on the new hdd) is XP Pro, which is what I'm trying use to view the 'old' slave drive (which has Win98 on it).
I've read another similar query on another forum which suggests only solution is to re-format the old slave drive.. which seems a shame.
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Hi Richie,
Are you trying to save the data?
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.M2
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Hi,
Yes, I'm ideally looking to set up the old hdd as a slave to transfer all my old data, rather than using another media, which will mean several trips!
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Hi Richie,
I'm stuck.
A last resort might be to boot on 98se and:
fdisk /mbr
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.M2
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