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Hi
I've just loaded WinXP Pro onto a new, clean disk using NTFS and it's all
gone
fine. But I have also connected a second hard disk, full of data, which was
my old Win98 disk (thus formatted in FAT32). This Win 98 disk is connected
as the
slave to the new Win XP master. The slave (Win 98) disk shows up in Disk
Management and in the device manager, but not in My computer or Explorer.
Disk Management shows it as "healthy" "active" and "online", yet there's
only one option available when you right-click the drive and that is "delete
partition".
I don't want to boot from this disk, or use Win98 on it - but I do want to
access
some files on it (i.e. copy across to new disk). How can I get this disk to
show up and be accessible as the slave to the new WinXP system ??? It
clearly knows it's there, but won't make it accessible........
Any help gratefully received.......
Hi
I've just loaded WinXP Pro onto a new, clean disk using NTFS and it's all
gone
fine. But I have also connected a second hard disk, full of data, which was
my old Win98 disk (thus formatted in FAT32). This Win 98 disk is connected
as the
slave to the new Win XP master. The slave (Win 98) disk shows up in Disk
Management and in the device manager, but not in My computer or Explorer.
Disk Management shows it as "healthy" "active" and "online", yet there's
only one option available when you right-click the drive and that is "delete
partition".
I don't want to boot from this disk, or use Win98 on it - but I do want to
access
some files on it (i.e. copy across to new disk). How can I get this disk to
show up and be accessible as the slave to the new WinXP system ??? It
clearly knows it's there, but won't make it accessible........
Any help gratefully received.......