I recently upgraded everything in our computer except our old hard drive (new mother board, cpu, memory, etc.). We also added a new hard drive because our old was a tiny (relatively) 10 GB drive. I did a fresh install of Windows XP Home Edition on the new drive (120 GB Seagate Barracuda) using NTFS file system. This is where my problems start.
The BIOS on my new motherboard (Gigabye 7N400-L) recognizes both the new and old hard drives correctly. Windows sees both hard drives; however, when I went to move my files from the old drive to the new drive, the only response I get is a request asking my if I want to format my drive (the old one). The old drive was formatted using FAT32 (I think - it was a pre-made system using Windows 98SE). I tried using the conversion utility (NTFS from FAT32) from the command prompt but it wouldn't execute (can't remember the exact error).
Finally in desperation I hooked the old drive as the master and attempt to boot. Windows (98SE that is) started but eventually bogged down due to all the new hardware (essentially everything) present on the system. So appears that the old hard drive is still functional but I am unable to access the data on through Windows XP.
Does anyone have any suggestions for salvaging the data on the old hard drive.
Thanks in advance.
The BIOS on my new motherboard (Gigabye 7N400-L) recognizes both the new and old hard drives correctly. Windows sees both hard drives; however, when I went to move my files from the old drive to the new drive, the only response I get is a request asking my if I want to format my drive (the old one). The old drive was formatted using FAT32 (I think - it was a pre-made system using Windows 98SE). I tried using the conversion utility (NTFS from FAT32) from the command prompt but it wouldn't execute (can't remember the exact error).
Finally in desperation I hooked the old drive as the master and attempt to boot. Windows (98SE that is) started but eventually bogged down due to all the new hardware (essentially everything) present on the system. So appears that the old hard drive is still functional but I am unable to access the data on through Windows XP.
Does anyone have any suggestions for salvaging the data on the old hard drive.
Thanks in advance.