Well, my ancient P4 based system finally fried itself. About time.
Since I had a perfectly good all steel case and recently upgraded PSU, I rebuilt it. Essentially, it's a new, lower end system.
Gigabyte G31M-ES2L MoBo
Pentium dual core 2200 CPU
4 GB RAM
WD 500 GB Sata Hard Drive
New fans. Old CD drive. Old, non-functioning 3.5" floppy, just for that "retro" look.
I installed a clean copy of XP Pro SP3 and it fired right up. I was VERY pleased.
Here's the rub. I have LOTS of stuff I want on my old IDE Hard Drive. After burning in the basic system, I hooked it up to power, and to an IDE ribbon cable (which I know is working -- I'm listening to Old School Rock & Blues on a CD drive which is upstream of the IDE Hard Drive right now).
I booted it up, and . . . . the system does not even see that drive as an option. It's not in "My Computer" or anywhere else I can find.
Now, I don't really care about this old drive, just the data. I've already prepared a partition on the new drive for it. Question is -- how do i GET it and copy it to the new drive?
Thanks in advance for any help, guys, you've always been great!
Kelly
Since I had a perfectly good all steel case and recently upgraded PSU, I rebuilt it. Essentially, it's a new, lower end system.
Gigabyte G31M-ES2L MoBo
Pentium dual core 2200 CPU
4 GB RAM
WD 500 GB Sata Hard Drive
New fans. Old CD drive. Old, non-functioning 3.5" floppy, just for that "retro" look.
I installed a clean copy of XP Pro SP3 and it fired right up. I was VERY pleased.
Here's the rub. I have LOTS of stuff I want on my old IDE Hard Drive. After burning in the basic system, I hooked it up to power, and to an IDE ribbon cable (which I know is working -- I'm listening to Old School Rock & Blues on a CD drive which is upstream of the IDE Hard Drive right now).
I booted it up, and . . . . the system does not even see that drive as an option. It's not in "My Computer" or anywhere else I can find.
Now, I don't really care about this old drive, just the data. I've already prepared a partition on the new drive for it. Question is -- how do i GET it and copy it to the new drive?
Thanks in advance for any help, guys, you've always been great!
Kelly