I have an old Maxtor internal hd from an old gateway pc, ( model TA00378 on drive). I believe it had windows 98 on it. It was from my old pc from childhood, looking to recover some memories/files. Unfortunately it was stored in a barn for the past umpteen years. Regardless im trying to access it. I dont have an external hd enclosure but i do have another older spare desktop (windows xp) with extra IDE and power connections. Every time i try to connect the old hd(windows 98) to the spare desktop, windows states that their is no hd connected and doesn't boot. I've tried many combinations; i inserted the older drive as slave and kept the original hd set as master and it still doesn't boot. I even tried disconnecting the original drive all together and just loading up the windows 98 drive as master, and it still said no drive connected and would not boot. I've tried both in cable select mode or only one etc....still couldnt get it to work. only until i unplug the windows 98 drive all together does the pc boot like it should. Am I missing something? or do i need extra drivers etc? I even hotplugged it in while windows xp was loaded and the pc froze. As you can tell im out of ideas.
Need a little help. thanks
btw i followed this guide to figure out what jumper settings i needed for the windows 98 drive.
http://www.techadvice.com/specs/answer.asp?aid=378
Need a little help. thanks
btw i followed this guide to figure out what jumper settings i needed for the windows 98 drive.
http://www.techadvice.com/specs/answer.asp?aid=378
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