Guest jrine Posted August 24, 2007 Posted August 24, 2007 Hi, I have a Western Digital 10.2 gig Hard drive formated Fat32 that was the only drive on a win98 machine. I need to get the data off of it. I put the drive in my winxp machine as a slave to the master and booted up the xp machine. Windows see's the drive and the Drive Management sees it as active and healthy, but no drive letter is assigned, resulting in not being able to access the drive to recover the data. I have tried installing it as a secondary master removing all drives but the primary which has xp installed on. Ive tried to bring it up using a usb to IDE adapter and still its shows up but no access/drive letter. I would try to make it NTFS but with no drive letter this option is out. Is my main problem that fact that it has an MBR on it from being a primary in the WIN98 box? What do I need to do short of buying a cd burner and installing it in the old win98 machine and burning the data off? Thanks.
Guest JS Posted August 24, 2007 Posted August 24, 2007 Re: Fat32 drive unable to see Have you tried XP's 'Disk Management' tool to assign a drive letter? JS "jrine" <jrrinehart@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1187964433.643145.65710@x40g2000prg.googlegroups.com... > Hi, > > I have a Western Digital 10.2 gig Hard drive formated Fat32 that was > the only drive on a win98 machine. I need to get the data off of it. > I put the drive in my winxp machine as a slave to the master and > booted up the xp machine. Windows see's the drive and the Drive > Management sees it as active and healthy, but no drive letter is > assigned, resulting in not being able to access the drive to recover > the data. > > I have tried installing it as a secondary master removing all drives > but the primary which has xp installed on. Ive tried to bring it up > using a usb to IDE adapter and still its shows up but no access/drive > letter. I would try to make it NTFS but with no drive letter this > option is out. > > Is my main problem that fact that it has an MBR on it from being a > primary in the WIN98 box? What do I need to do short of buying a cd > burner and installing it in the old win98 machine and burning the data > off? > > Thanks. >
Guest Newbie Coder Posted August 24, 2007 Posted August 24, 2007 Re: Fat32 drive unable to see Jrine, Is the drive jumper setting set to Cable Select (CS)? If not, are you using the correct jumper setting for the drive in the first place? Just checking You can go into Disk Management (right-click MY COMPUTER | MANAGE) click Disk Management, right-click the drive & assign a drive letter to it. Remember NTFS sees FAT but not vice versa Lastly, spoof your e-mail unless you like SPAM -- Newbie Coder (It's just a name) "jrine" <jrrinehart@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1187964433.643145.65710@x40g2000prg.googlegroups.com... > Hi, > > I have a Western Digital 10.2 gig Hard drive formated Fat32 that was > the only drive on a win98 machine. I need to get the data off of it. > I put the drive in my winxp machine as a slave to the master and > booted up the xp machine. Windows see's the drive and the Drive > Management sees it as active and healthy, but no drive letter is > assigned, resulting in not being able to access the drive to recover > the data. > > I have tried installing it as a secondary master removing all drives > but the primary which has xp installed on. Ive tried to bring it up > using a usb to IDE adapter and still its shows up but no access/drive > letter. I would try to make it NTFS but with no drive letter this > option is out. > > Is my main problem that fact that it has an MBR on it from being a > primary in the WIN98 box? What do I need to do short of buying a cd > burner and installing it in the old win98 machine and burning the data > off? > > Thanks. >
Guest Bert Kinney Posted August 26, 2007 Posted August 26, 2007 Re: Fat32 drive unable to see Hi, Drive letter are not being hidden with TweakUI! Regards, Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User http://bertk.mvps.org Member: http://dts-l.org jrine wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Western Digital 10.2 gig Hard drive formated Fat32 that was > the only drive on a win98 machine. I need to get the data off of it. > I put the drive in my winxp machine as a slave to the master and > booted up the xp machine. Windows see's the drive and the Drive > Management sees it as active and healthy, but no drive letter is > assigned, resulting in not being able to access the drive to recover > the data. > > I have tried installing it as a secondary master removing all drives > but the primary which has xp installed on. Ive tried to bring it up > using a usb to IDE adapter and still its shows up but no access/drive > letter. I would try to make it NTFS but with no drive letter this > option is out. > > Is my main problem that fact that it has an MBR on it from being a > primary in the WIN98 box? What do I need to do short of buying a cd > burner and installing it in the old win98 machine and burning the data > off? > > Thanks. >
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