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Old May 30th 06, 03:24 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.hardware
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Recently my emachine T2885 xp based system stoped working. While I dig up the
cash to repair it I have temporarily removed the hard drive and installed it
in my Me based pentium 3 Gateway as a slave. I did this to transfer my
important file to continue my work. All went will, but when I went into
explorer to view the contents of the slave drive it would not let me. I'm at
a loss! Please help!
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Old May 30th 06, 07:51 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.hardware
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Your problem is probably due to the hard disk that was used with XP having
been formatted to use the NTFS filing system. Win9x systems such as Win
Me cannot natively read or write to disks formatted using the NTFS system
but are restricted to accessing those formatted using the FAT filing
system. Third party tools do exist that when installed on Win me can
allow Win Me to read NTFS formatted disks and at some cost to also write
to such disks. Personally though I would not recommend the latter and
feel you should stick at reading the disk only.

Details of SysInternals' free reader that will allow Win 9x systems to
read from a NTFS disk can be found at
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilitie...Windows98.html
--
Mike Maltby



Evelynv wrote:

Recently my emachine T2885 xp based system stoped working. While I
dig up the cash to repair it I have temporarily removed the hard
drive and installed it in my Me based pentium 3 Gateway as a slave. I
did this to transfer my important file to continue my work. All went
will, but when I went into explorer to view the contents of the slave
drive it would not let me. I'm at a loss! Please help!


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Old June 2nd 06, 04:22 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.hardware
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Mike M thank you so much for your advice. It took me very far, but
unfortunately I am still in a loop! The site you suggested gave me the third
party file I probably do need. The problem now is that I need to place
certain ntfs files from my xp installation on to a directory in my Me system,
and there was no suggestions on how to do that. I searched all over the
sysinternals.com web site, even countless discussions on their form. I so
searched on web search engines for some clue as to this missing peice of
info, but to no avail. I could'nt find it on my xp recovery disks either.
Once again, do you or any other knowledgable guru out there have any idea on
what I can do at this stage?

"Mike M" wrote:

Your problem is probably due to the hard disk that was used with XP having
been formatted to use the NTFS filing system. Win9x systems such as Win
Me cannot natively read or write to disks formatted using the NTFS system
but are restricted to accessing those formatted using the FAT filing
system. Third party tools do exist that when installed on Win me can
allow Win Me to read NTFS formatted disks and at some cost to also write
to such disks. Personally though I would not recommend the latter and
feel you should stick at reading the disk only.

Details of SysInternals' free reader that will allow Win 9x systems to
read from a NTFS disk can be found at
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilitie...Windows98.html
--
Mike Maltby



Evelynv wrote:

Recently my emachine T2885 xp based system stoped working. While I
dig up the cash to repair it I have temporarily removed the hard
drive and installed it in my Me based pentium 3 Gateway as a slave. I
did this to transfer my important file to continue my work. All went
will, but when I went into explorer to view the contents of the slave
drive it would not let me. I'm at a loss! Please help!



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Old June 2nd 06, 06:00 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.hardware
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Default xp formated hd not viewed on Windows Me system

What exactly are you trying to do? If you have installed the NTFS reader
from Sysinternals all that is now necessary is for you to copy or drag the
files you want from the NTFS formatted disk to a Win Me partition. Do
this in exactly the same way you would copy any other file.

Personally I would never recommend a user to attempt to access a NTFS
formatted disk on a Win 9x system but if needs must then you have to do
what you have to do.

I'm not certain why you mention an XP Recovery disk. You either access
the XP disk from Win Me, which is the subject of this post, or you repair
XP which I feel should be the subject of a new thread in a newsgroup
supporting those running XP.
--
Mike Maltby MVP



Evelynv wrote:

Mike M thank you so much for your advice. It took me very far, but
unfortunately I am still in a loop! The site you suggested gave me
the third party file I probably do need. The problem now is that I
need to place certain ntfs files from my xp installation on to a
directory in my Me system, and there was no suggestions on how to do
that. I searched all over the sysinternals.com web site, even
countless discussions on their form. I so searched on web search
engines for some clue as to this missing peice of info, but to no
avail. I could'nt find it on my xp recovery disks either. Once again,
do you or any other knowledgable guru out there have any idea on what
I can do at this stage?


 




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