slave hard drive

I have a new Dell and I want to install my old slave HD from my older Dell into my new Dell as a slave. Therefore, I can hopefully retain all of my old data & photo files on the old one to use in the new one(whew!) I installed the older one in & set the jumper as cable-select as it told me to do. The bios sees it, device manager sees it, disk management sees it....but my computer does not nor does windows explorer. So of course I can not access it for my files. Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong. Both cpu's run Win XP The slave does not have an active partition on it, I set it up just for data. I do have it partitioned into 2 separate drives. (Disk management sees it as the whole 27 gig drive & as healthy but the upper part of the disk management screen only shows part 1 & 18 gig) New machine is NTFS...old slave HD is Fat 32

Thank you...anybody!

 

Im not an expert but i think ntfs and fat32 are not compatiable completly. Also did you set you old drive jumper to slave? Might be worth checking. Just my .o2$

 

Were did you plug it in IDE1 or IDE2 this is how it should be and try making it slave not cable SL

IDE1
Drive1
Master
drive2
Slave

IDE2
Drive1
Master
Drive2
Slave

I can see my FAT32 on my NTFS

 

Definitely try setting the drive as slave, as kerzmike has said. I have not once had cable select work properly, but that will no doubt depend on your system. Set the master as master, too.

Right-click My Computer and go to Manage. See if the new drive appears in Disk Management.

Also, if you use TweakUI or any other tweaking programs, be sure you haven't hidden that drive letter when it was unused.

Note: There is no compatibilty problem between NTFS and FAT32. It is the OS that "sees" or fails to see the partitions. Win98 (without the NTFS file system drivers installed---they can be purchased) cannot "see" an NTFS partition. XP can see both types of partitions no matter whether it itself is using NTFS or FAT32.

 

Thank you all for your suggestions. I tried setting the 2nd HD to slave & cable-select. And the Master is set as master. The drive appears in the bios, device manager AND disk management, just not in my computer nor in Windows Explorer. I haven't hidden any drive letters and I don't use TweakUI.
I contacted Seagate & they say that "If the drive was setup using Disk Manager/Discwizard in my old system,
this is most likely the problem.
In the new system, the DDO that was installed on this drive can't be
loaded into memory. (So it can't be accessed)" So I don't know what to do except put the dumb thing back into my old cpu, make my huge backups & then reinstall & format for the new cpu!!!

 

That is why it is generally a good idea to avoid third-party partitioners and disk managers (I'm not talking about Partition Magic and such, but those that use non-standard, proprietary, crackpot partition protocols). They were a good idea 5 or more years ago when even the slightest speed increase could compensate for the slow processors, but Microsoft has learned a few things, too, and gotten smarter, and processors are a lot faster. These non-standard things only lead to problems now, lead to incompatibilities, and don't improve things at all.

Sounds like you have planned out the most reasonable thing to do. I was going to suggest a format, but had forgotten you had things to save.

Good luck.

 

marygeorge - it does sound like you are going to need to scrub and reformat the old drive in the new system. Bummer.

Rather than a huge backup, since you probably have plenty of room on the new hard drive, why not network the two PCs and transfer the data you want from old to new that way.

If you have network cards on both, it will be fast. But it can be done via parallel (printer) ports and although slower, it should do fine. Even serial ports will do the job they they would be by far the slowest option.

 

Just some food for thought here...

Sometimes, though not often, a drive will not work as a Master, Slave or Cable select but will work without any jumper at all. In your case, it may be worth a quick try.

Ray

 

Thank you, but I tried that too!!!! I have put it back into the old cpu & when I have a chance I am going to save photos & etc on some cds. Even though I thought it was a good idea to do the network thing, I couldn't get that idea going easily enuff to fool with. Thanks, you guys....I'll be back another time, I am sure!

 

You can also put a cable between the two boxes ans transper the files that way as well

Ray