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recognizing 2nd harddrive on comp

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by JAK, 2005/12/19.

  1. 2005/12/19
    JAK

    JAK Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    I am using my old comp (win 98/400/384ram/13gig). My newer one i apparently fried the mb while trying to add ram (i thought it was seated and it wasn't. it sparked and comp turns on but won't boot or go anywhere. Tried diff ram sticks). Newer one has a 40 gig hd, with win xp pro on the system. I hooked up the 40 on my old system as a "slave" to get some data from. Under dev. mgr. it sees the 40 gig hd under the "disk drives" heading along with the floppy. Doesn't list it though when you open my comp. Just the C, and floppy and two cd drives. Any way to get it to recognize the 40? Somewhere did I read about changing the pins on back of the hd? Thanks a lot! (Is it possible to just remove the old 13 gig and replace with the 40 as primary and have the old comp successfully boot up?)
     
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  2. 2005/12/19
    PeteC

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    Yes, you will need to set the drive as slave through the jumpers at the rear of the drive. There is generally a diagram on the top of the drive case showing the jumper positions.
    Unfortunately it is not as simple as that. XP records the specific hardware on which it is installed and unless that hardware is very similar the chances of the system booting are remote - bear in mind that the drivers installed on the drive are for the fried motherboard.

    However all is not lost and you should be able to successfully boot up the system using the XP drive by making a repair install of XP. Boot from the CD and take the second repair option.

    Some guidance here.
     
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  4. 2005/12/19
    JAK

    JAK Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Actually, the pin is in the slave slot already according to the little diagram on the hd. The way it was when it was the only hd in the newer comp. ??
     
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  5. 2005/12/19
    mattman

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    Windows 98 cannot read the NTFS file system, only the FAT file system. If the new HDD was formatted as NTFS, Windows 98 won't be able to read it.

    There is a program called NTFS Reader that is supposed to be able to read them.

    Better still maybe, would be to set it up as a slave drive in another Win XP system.
     
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  6. 2005/12/21
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    PeteC and mattman have the right of it.
    Put the drive into another WinXP system, get the data you need and put it in the Win98
    system. Beware of putting in applications (programs) tho, you might run into incompatable
    problems there.....

    savagcl
     
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  7. 2006/01/16
    JAK

    JAK Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Sorry....did put it in another xp and got info we needed. Thanks.
     
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