I am trying to move a 40 gig Maxtor Hard disk drive from a computer running windows NT to a computer running windows ME on a 60 gig hard drive touse it as a slave drive. The Bios recognizes it and Partition magic will recognize it, however neither windows nor Dos will see it (I never get A D drive specification for it anywhere) and partition magic only sees it as a dynamic drive (I do not know what this means) and virtually all of the functions of Partition Magic are disabled. I am afraid to re-format/partition the drive as all the data I need will/may be lost. Am I doing something undoable or does anyone have any suggestions?

WinMe might not see it because it has a different file system. NT uses NTFS whereas winME uses Fat32. If that is the case, you will have to convert the NT drive from NTFS to Fat32 in order to see what's on it when you are in winME and Partition magic can do that for you.

dont think w2k will run on fat32. m.e absolutely cannot read ntfs.nor can dos bootdisks or dos its self.

Win2K has no problems running on FAT32. Go to www.winternals.com and download their freeware version of NTFS for Win98 (yes it also works on ME). You will be able to see NTFS partitions after installing it.

The above post is right - and just to clarify, only PC's running NT and Win2k can use NTFS (maybe XP too?) but definitely not Win9x series (includes ME). A third party product will allow you to see NTFS drives but usually on a read-only basis - you would not be able to change any data on it. There is no way I know of converting NTFS back to FAT, FAT16, FAT32 etc, but you can convert FAT32 partitions to NTFS with the CONVERT command in the Windows 2000 dos command set. If you are determined to be able to use the NTFS drive and it was created in NT4 with one of the more recent service packs then a better decision would be to install Windows 2000 which can access and change data on the drive.