"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