Can I read a windowsme drive using XP?

[Guest]

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Windows ME
Compaq Presario 128K

My drive 0 died, but I backed up my data on a second hard drive (Drive 1 =
Western Digital 30Gig) inside the computer.
I just bought a new computer:
emachines 256K
Windows XP

Can I plug my old Drive 1 with all the Windows ME stuff on it into this new
machine and read it to get my data back?

Thanks
Steve

 

[Guest]

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Steve,

Yes. XP can access drives using either the FAT or NTFS filing systems so
should have no trouble accessing files on a FAT disk that was written to
by Win Me.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP
mike.maltby@gmail.com


Steve Frye <frye@route36.com> wrote:

> Windows ME
> Compaq Presario 128K
>
> My drive 0 died, but I backed up my data on a second hard drive
> (Drive 1 = Western Digital 30Gig) inside the computer.
> I just bought a new computer:
> emachines 256K
> Windows XP
>
> Can I plug my old Drive 1 with all the Windows ME stuff on it into
> this new machine and read it to get my data back?

 

[sf]

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Yes, Alias, I meant 256Meg of Ram.
And thanks for your advice.

Mike: Thanks. Sure appreciate the good news!


"Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote in message
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> Steve,
>
> Yes. XP can access drives using either the FAT or NTFS filing systems so
> should have no trouble accessing files on a FAT disk that was written to
> by Win Me.
> --
> Mike Maltby MS-MVP
> mike.maltby@gmail.com
>
>
> Steve Frye <frye@route36.com> wrote:
>
>> Windows ME
>> Compaq Presario 128K
>>
>> My drive 0 died, but I backed up my data on a second hard drive
>> (Drive 1 = Western Digital 30Gig) inside the computer.
>> I just bought a new computer:
>> emachines 256K
>> Windows XP
>>
>> Can I plug my old Drive 1 with all the Windows ME stuff on it into
>> this new machine and read it to get my data back?
>

 

[Alias]

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"Steve Frye" <frye@route36.com> wrote in message
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> Windows ME
> Compaq Presario 128K
>
> My drive 0 died, but I backed up my data on a second hard drive (Drive 1 =
> Western Digital 30Gig) inside the computer.
> I just bought a new computer:
> emachines 256K

eMachines? You have my sympathy. 256K what? RAM? If you mean 256 MB of RAM,
get more.

> Windows XP
>
> Can I plug my old Drive 1 with all the Windows ME stuff on it into this
> new machine and read it to get my data back?
>
> Thanks
> Steve

Yes. Make it a slave first.

Alias

 

[Guest]

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256MB is fine for WindowsME.


Rick


Alias wrote:
> "Steve Frye" <frye@route36.com> wrote in message
> news:O2tgoJOWFHA.132@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>
>>Windows ME
>>Compaq Presario 128K
>>
>>My drive 0 died, but I backed up my data on a second hard drive (Drive 1 =
>>Western Digital 30Gig) inside the computer.
>>I just bought a new computer:
>>emachines 256K
>
>
> eMachines? You have my sympathy. 256K what? RAM? If you mean 256 MB of RAM,
> get more.
>
>
>>Windows XP
>>
>>Can I plug my old Drive 1 with all the Windows ME stuff on it into this
>>new machine and read it to get my data back?
>>
>>Thanks
>>Steve
>
>
> Yes. Make it a slave first.
>
> Alias
>
>

 

[sf]

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Thanks, Rick.
But the 256 is on the new emachine I just bought (Windows XP).
The old Presario (Windows ME) had 128, but it was getting very old and
infirm, then finally died.

"Rick T" <plinnane3REMOVE@NOSPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message
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> 256MB is fine for WindowsME.
>
>
> Rick
>
>
> Alias wrote:
>> "Steve Frye" <frye@route36.com> wrote in message
>> news:O2tgoJOWFHA.132@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>>
>>>Windows ME
>>>Compaq Presario 128K
>>>
>>>My drive 0 died, but I backed up my data on a second hard drive (Drive 1
>>>= Western Digital 30Gig) inside the computer.
>>>I just bought a new computer:
>>>emachines 256K
>>
>>
>> eMachines? You have my sympathy. 256K what? RAM? If you mean 256 MB of
>> RAM, get more.
>>
>>
>>>Windows XP
>>>
>>>Can I plug my old Drive 1 with all the Windows ME stuff on it into this
>>>new machine and read it to get my data back?
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>Steve
>>
>>
>> Yes. Make it a slave first.
>>
>> Alias

 

[steve]

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Hi there,

Yes, I can definitely confirm this is 100% correct (not that I doubted
MikeM at all.. he is a clever guy !) as I did the exact same thing 2
weeks ago.

I had a 80GB Drive from Windows ME with all my data on it.
When I installed Windows XP Pro I used NTFS (I was told it was better
than FAT) and put my 80GB in as a slave.
I then transferred the data from the slave to the master and when I
was happy I then reformatted the 80GB hard drive to NTFS from within
Windows XP.

Steve

On Sun, 15 May 2005 01:22:09 +0100, "Mike M"
<No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote:

>Steve,
>
>Yes. XP can access drives using either the FAT or NTFS filing systems so
>should have no trouble accessing files on a FAT disk that was written to
>by Win Me.

 

[sf]

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That's excellent news, Steve.
I haven't tried it yet, but I hope my attempt turns out as well.


"Steve" <steve@parity.demon.removethis.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi there,
>
> Yes, I can definitely confirm this is 100% correct (not that I doubted
> MikeM at all.. he is a clever guy !) as I did the exact same thing 2
> weeks ago.
>
> I had a 80GB Drive from Windows ME with all my data on it.
> When I installed Windows XP Pro I used NTFS (I was told it was better
> than FAT) and put my 80GB in as a slave.
> I then transferred the data from the slave to the master and when I
> was happy I then reformatted the 80GB hard drive to NTFS from within
> Windows XP.
>
> Steve
>
> On Sun, 15 May 2005 01:22:09 +0100, "Mike M"
> <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote:
>
>>Steve,
>>
>>Yes. XP can access drives using either the FAT or NTFS filing systems so
>>should have no trouble accessing files on a FAT disk that was written to
>>by Win Me.
>

 

[Guest]

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This is a good oportunity for you both to create a 4 GB NTFS partition on
the second drive, and move the XP page file to it, to increase performance.
Leave about 50 MB for the page file on C:, which some programs want to
detect, and set the rest on the new partition, on the second drive.
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

--
Jack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS
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Your cooperation is very appreciated.
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"SF" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> That's excellent news, Steve.
> I haven't tried it yet, but I hope my attempt turns out as well.
>
>
> "Steve" <steve@parity.demon.removethis.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:0hcg81h2s11psu7nukfum4spdsc8dc8rqb@4ax.com...
> > Hi there,
> >
> > Yes, I can definitely confirm this is 100% correct (not that I doubted
> > MikeM at all.. he is a clever guy !) as I did the exact same thing 2
> > weeks ago.
> >
> > I had a 80GB Drive from Windows ME with all my data on it.
> > When I installed Windows XP Pro I used NTFS (I was told it was better
> > than FAT) and put my 80GB in as a slave.
> > I then transferred the data from the slave to the master and when I
> > was happy I then reformatted the 80GB hard drive to NTFS from within
> > Windows XP.
> >
> > Steve
> >
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