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Second Drive Not Recognized in Win98
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. -- Peggy A. In A Chord Web Design and Consulting |
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