"philo" wrote:
"Peggy A" wrote in message
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I am trying to help a friend get her data from an old hard drive after her
motherboard died. This drive is from a 6-7 year old Gateway PC and it has
the
older parallel connector, so I tried to add it as a second drive in an
older
Dell Dimension XPS Pro PC running Windows 98 SE. I attached the second
drive
as a slave and the BIOS recognizes it, but I cannot see it in Windows.
I've
read other posts about needing to format the drive, but since this drive
has
data on it, I cannot reformat it. I also tried attaching it as the
primary
and only drive, but the system wouldn't boot. I even applied an update to
the
BIOS thinking it may be a drive capacity issue since the second one is a
40
GB drive. That didn't have any impact either.
Is there a way to get Windows 98 to recognize this drive so I can copy the
data off of it for her? Any suggestions on the best way to get the data
off
her drive would be appreciated.
Thanks.
If the drive came from another win98 machine...it should be visible
however if it came from a Win2k machine or an XP machine...the drive may
very well be formatted as NTFS
and not visible from win98 which cannot recognize NTFS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS
Im having sort of the same problem as philo
My Operating System is Windows 98SE..
Ok here goes...
my computer motherboard *WAS*an ABIT KT7-RAID it died...
when the computer was running i had 2 hard drives installed on it..
1 MASTER (Operating System 98SE* And Programs ONLY*)..
1 SLAVE (for Data Backup And Storage Only)
both hard drives were on the *same IDE Cable*
their pins were set on MASTER and SlAVE
*Not* on cable select....
the Master hard drive was a
IBM DeskStar Hard Drive
Model: DPTA-371360 (ATA)
13.6 GB 7200 RPM
P/N 31L9151
the Slave hard drive was a
Quantum Fireball Hard Drive
Quantum Fireball lct20
Model ID: QML20000LD-A
20.4 GB 4500 RPM
P/N 204531-001
heres what happened
well my motherboard died so i got another motherboard that would work with
my parts off my old system..
a friend gave me a striped Compaq computer (MotherBoard and Case Only)
a *Compaq 5000US*
besides no over clocking in the Bios on the Compaq like My KT-7 had it works
pretty good..
i installed my processor (AMD Athlon 1200 - A1200AMS3B)
and my Memory sticks...
i installed My Windows 98SE Operating system On the IBM hard drive..
*just like on My old system*
Got it All running good...
im using it right now typing this...
its all running GREAT..
HERES THE PROBLEM..
then When i went to Put in My Quantum disk Drive with ALL my data on it
on the same IDE cable as The IBM with my OS
*just like i had set up in my old system*
REMEMBER i have the Quantum Slaved ALL READY..i Didn't Change Anything
Started up my System...
i Got a ERROR...
NO DISK FOUND
my system wouldent boot up..
i restarted and checked in my BIOS..
both Hard Drives were listed in the Bios As they should be..right Size and
all..
restarted it again...nothing..same Error
shut it all down...pulled out the Quantum Hard drive...
it stared up fine..booted fine no problems..system running good
so i thought id try putting the Quantum On the Second IDE cable...
the system booted up then...BUT NO D: DRIVE was showing...just the C: drive
was showing up...
pulled out the Quantum Again..put the Pin on the Quantum to Master..
same thing the drive was NOT showing...only the C: drive showing
restarted the computer again..
looked in my Bios Again..there it was Again..but showing as a Master on the
Second IDE now...like it should..since i changed it to that...
restarted my system...
NO D: drive showing up..
pulled out the Quantum...
put back My DVD burner and DVD ROM back on to the Second IDE...
they were working fine...so i know the Second IDE works
PUT the Quantium back in...then *checked it in Fdisk*..
it was showing up There...**BUT** the FAT wasent showing..it was showing as
UNKNOWN....Not FAT32 like it should be..the IBM was showing FAT32
i thought what the hecks going on i didnt change anything on it...
just pluged it in on my new system...
then i tried checking it with the Quantium Disk tool in DOS..
(Maxator Max Blaster 4.0 Partition tool)..
it was showing up as FAT32 in the Quantum disk tool...like it should..
i thought whats going on..one DOS tools showing it...ones not..
what the hecks going on....im worried im going to loose all my data i thought
was safe due to being on a seperate hard drive disk..
i didnt change anything on it just pluged it on to another Windows 98 system
it should be working fine..
i have done this before with other peoples system..pulled a hard drive from
one Windows 98 system..Slaved the Hard drive pin..
Put it on to another windows 98 system and had it always showed and was
always able to get data from them...
whats up with this one???
i am SOOO lost..
why isen't the FAT32 showing in Fdisk now
and *WHY IS IT*showing in the Quantium Disk tool for that type of hard
drive...
it was working fine before...
all i did was take a SLAVED Hard drive DATA Disk that was working fine..
and put it onto another system..
why isen't it working now??