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can't see data copied from one drive to another?!
Have I gone stark raving mad?!
took a 1.7gig drive freshly formatted and set it up as a master on secondary(single drive) copied "xyz" from C: on computer A took the drive to computer B and could not see any data. drive properties did say 266mb was used but could not see it anywhere. only some dumb file called "rt at:" fdisked/formatted/scandisk(thourough) and copied a single folder "abc" as proof. brought drive back to computer A and the folder was not there! decided to copy "xyz" folder again for what it was worth. Brought drive home and put it on a w2k computer. Now I can see "abc" but not "xyz" ! No virus detected on drive. |
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"jd" wrote in message
... Have I gone stark raving mad?! took a 1.7gig drive freshly formatted and set it up as a master on secondary(single drive) Just curious: if it is your new C:\, why not connect it via the primary IDE line ? copied "xyz" from C: on computer A took the drive to computer B and could not see any data. drive properties did say 266mb was used but could not see it anywhere. only some dumb file called "rt at:" We need details: 1 -- whether PC B recognized the transferred drive in BIOS 2 -- whether PC B recognized the transferred drive in Win98 (presumably not.) fdisked/formatted/scandisk(thourough) and copied a single folder "abc" as proof. brought drive back to computer A and the folder was not there! We need details as in ## 1-2 above. You may have forgotten to rejumper the transferred drive appropriately. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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... Have I gone stark raving mad?! took a 1.7gig drive freshly formatted and set it up as a master on secondary(single drive) Just curious: if it is your new C:\, why not connect it via the primary IDE line ? because the o/s (win98) is on the primary ide this d: is just a hard drive for storage. copied "xyz" from C: on computer A took the drive to computer B and could not see any data. drive properties did say 266mb was used but could not see it anywhere. only some dumb file called "rt at:" We need details: 1 -- whether PC B recognized the transferred drive in BIOS 2 -- whether PC B recognized the transferred drive in Win98 (presumably not.) drive was seen in the bios win98 saw the drive... how else can I copy from c: to d: ? fdisked/formatted/scandisk(thourough) and copied a single folder "abc" as proof. brought drive back to computer A and the folder was not there! We need details as in ## 1-2 above. You may have forgotten to rejumper the transferred drive appropriately. On both computers, the drive is a master drive(only) on the secondary channel. no need to rejumper anything. Thanks |
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You can't necessarily assume that a drive can be safely transferred from one
system to another. The ATA/IDE standard does not dictate that the drive geometry is identical between different systems. Use Scandisk in each system to confirm that the drive prepared in one system is properly configured for the other system. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "jd" wrote in message ... Have I gone stark raving mad?! took a 1.7gig drive freshly formatted and set it up as a master on secondary(single drive) copied "xyz" from C: on computer A took the drive to computer B and could not see any data. drive properties did say 266mb was used but could not see it anywhere. only some dumb file called "rt at:" fdisked/formatted/scandisk(thourough) and copied a single folder "abc" as proof. brought drive back to computer A and the folder was not there! decided to copy "xyz" folder again for what it was worth. Brought drive home and put it on a w2k computer. Now I can see "abc" but not "xyz" ! No virus detected on drive. |
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Ended up putting the drive as a master(single) on secondary controller on an
xp pro system. naturally xp wanted to do a disk check. got about a million LOST CHAIN CROSS-LINKED AT CLUSTER xxxxxxx ORPHAN TRUNCATED. scrolling down the screen. Used a 15gig WD drive and the rest as they say is history. "Jeff Richards" wrote in message ... You can't necessarily assume that a drive can be safely transferred from one system to another. The ATA/IDE standard does not dictate that the drive geometry is identical between different systems. Use Scandisk in each system to confirm that the drive prepared in one system is properly configured for the other system. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "jd" wrote in message ... Have I gone stark raving mad?! took a 1.7gig drive freshly formatted and set it up as a master on secondary(single drive) copied "xyz" from C: on computer A took the drive to computer B and could not see any data. drive properties did say 266mb was used but could not see it anywhere. only some dumb file called "rt at:" fdisked/formatted/scandisk(thourough) and copied a single folder "abc" as proof. brought drive back to computer A and the folder was not there! decided to copy "xyz" folder again for what it was worth. Brought drive home and put it on a w2k computer. Now I can see "abc" but not "xyz" ! No virus detected on drive. |
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The problem is that the type of difference between devices means that the
disk will look completely OK as long as the system can read a valid partition table and root directory. Since both these can fit on the first side of the first track, it will not detect that the geometry is wrong and will happily write file data to whatever physical location the translation table specifies, regardless of whether or not it makes sense for the current formatting. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "jd" wrote in message ... Ended up putting the drive as a master(single) on secondary controller on an xp pro system. naturally xp wanted to do a disk check. got about a million LOST CHAIN CROSS-LINKED AT CLUSTER xxxxxxx ORPHAN TRUNCATED. scrolling down the screen. Used a 15gig WD drive and the rest as they say is history. |
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In both cases, you manually enter the HD's parameters in the bios setup.
And, of course, they have to be identical. These parameters are usually archived at the HD manufacturer's website. Dos/windows uses the bios HD parameters when partitioning the hard disk, and when examining the partition. If these are different, you will see the results. In most cases, nowadays, with recent hard drives and PCs, this is not much of a problem. "jd" wrote in message ... Have I gone stark raving mad?! took a 1.7gig drive freshly formatted and set it up as a master on secondary(single drive) copied "xyz" from C: on computer A took the drive to computer B and could not see any data. drive properties did say 266mb was used but could not see it anywhere. only some dumb file called "rt at:" fdisked/formatted/scandisk(thourough) and copied a single folder "abc" as proof. brought drive back to computer A and the folder was not there! decided to copy "xyz" folder again for what it was worth. Brought drive home and put it on a w2k computer. Now I can see "abc" but not "xyz" ! No virus detected on drive. |
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Some drives have a different jumper pin setting if it is the only drive on
the cable rather than a second drive. You might want to check that out. -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP Windows 98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "jd" wrote in message ... .. Have I gone stark raving mad?! took a 1.7gig drive freshly formatted and set it up as a master on secondary(single drive) Just curious: if it is your new C:\, why not connect it via the primary IDE line ? because the o/s (win98) is on the primary ide this d: is just a hard drive for storage. copied "xyz" from C: on computer A took the drive to computer B and could not see any data. drive properties did say 266mb was used but could not see it anywhere. only some dumb file called "rt at:" We need details: 1 -- whether PC B recognized the transferred drive in BIOS 2 -- whether PC B recognized the transferred drive in Win98 (presumably not.) drive was seen in the bios win98 saw the drive... how else can I copy from c: to d: ? fdisked/formatted/scandisk(thourough) and copied a single folder "abc" as proof. brought drive back to computer A and the folder was not there! We need details as in ## 1-2 above. You may have forgotten to rejumper the transferred drive appropriately. On both computers, the drive is a master drive(only) on the secondary channel. no need to rejumper anything. Thanks |
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