Guest mailman1056 Posted August 14, 2007 Posted August 14, 2007 I decommissioned my old computer but i want to use my old hard drive as a secondary drive in my new machine. The old drive had XP Pro on it but now I want access to my old files and pictures. Though it worked fine in the old machine I can't get the new machine to recognize this drive though I hook it up correctly. I even put it in an hard drive casing and used a usb hookup but still the new machine will not recognize it. I have done this in the past with a hard drive that was my master and had Window 98 on it and am still using that drive for file storage. How do I get past the security to see my files?
Guest Rich Barry Posted August 14, 2007 Posted August 14, 2007 Re: recognizing my old master drive as a slave in my new computer Does the Bios recognize it? You may have to hook it up using Cable Select instead of Master-Slave. Rt click MyComputer>select Manage>Disk Management. If it shows up there see if you can assign it a drive letter. Did you have it setup in your old computer as a Dynamic Disk? Or Basic Disk with Partitions. "mailman1056" <mailman1056@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:860C6C14-380C-4856-83F0-5A3C1F2D7612@microsoft.com... >I decommissioned my old computer but i want to use my old hard drive as a > secondary drive in my new machine. The old drive had XP Pro on it but now > I > want access to my old files and pictures. Though it worked fine in the old > machine I can't get the new machine to recognize this drive though I hook > it > up correctly. I even put it in an hard drive casing and used a usb hookup > but > still the new machine will not recognize it. I have done this in the past > with a hard drive that was my master and had Window 98 on it and am still > using that drive for file storage. How do I get past the security to see > my > files?
Guest Harry Ohrn Posted August 14, 2007 Posted August 14, 2007 Re: recognizing my old master drive as a slave in my new computer When you physically connected the drive to the computer did you set the jumper to the Slave position and ensure that it is recognized by the BIOS? When you moved it to the usb enclosure did you remember to set the jumper as Master? -- Harry Ohrn MS MVP [shell\User] http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp "mailman1056" <mailman1056@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:860C6C14-380C-4856-83F0-5A3C1F2D7612@microsoft.com... >I decommissioned my old computer but i want to use my old hard drive as a > secondary drive in my new machine. The old drive had XP Pro on it but now > I > want access to my old files and pictures. Though it worked fine in the old > machine I can't get the new machine to recognize this drive though I hook > it > up correctly. I even put it in an hard drive casing and used a usb hookup > but > still the new machine will not recognize it. I have done this in the past > with a hard drive that was my master and had Window 98 on it and am still > using that drive for file storage. How do I get past the security to see > my > files?
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted August 14, 2007 Posted August 14, 2007 Re: recognizing my old master drive as a slave in my new computer On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:26:03 -0700, mailman1056 <mailman1056@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > I decommissioned my old computer but i want to use my old hard drive as a > secondary drive in my new machine. The old drive had XP Pro on it but now I > want access to my old files and pictures. Though it worked fine in the old > machine I can't get the new machine to recognize this drive though I hook it > up correctly. Exactly what happens when you try? If you get an error message, please quote it verbatim. Is this perhaps the issue? Take ownership: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421 > I even put it in an hard drive casing and used a usb hookup but > still the new machine will not recognize it. I have done this in the past > with a hard drive that was my master and had Window 98 on it and am still > using that drive for file storage. How do I get past the security to see my > files? -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup
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