Re: Hard drive acting funky

Posted: 01-21-2004, 03:53 AM
Right click on My Computer and select Manage. On the following screen,
select Disk Management.

The drive should appear on the right hand side..... assign it a drive
letter!

Cari
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"Jeff" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I recently was helping a friend with a new pc. She wanted to transfer the
>data from her old machine's hard drive to the new one. So I installed
>Windows XP with an NTFS partition on the new hard drive and installed the
>old hard drive in the same machine (Which has Windows 98 SE installed on it
>and all the files she wants to keep). When I booted up XP it found the
>second hard drive like it should, and it shows it in the device manager.
>However when I double click my computer, it is not there. It only shows
>the C Drive (the new hard drive), and the DVD and CD-RW drive (D and E
>respectively). So how can this problem be fixed? I think it has something
>to do with possibly the mbr on the second hard drive? I just don't
>understand how Windows XP can see the hard drive, but won't display it or
>map it. Need help!

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Posted: 01-21-2004, 06:50 PM
"Cari \(MS-MVP\)" <Newsgroups1@coribright.com> wrote in message news:<OX9Riq93DHA.1052@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>...
> Right click on My Computer and select Manage. On the following screen,
> select Disk Management.
>
> The drive should appear on the right hand side..... assign it a drive
> letter!
>
> Cari
> www.coribright.com
>
> "Jeff" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9B5A3980-A5F7-4D53-B5F0-462EAE87CC6A@microsoft.com...
> >I recently was helping a friend with a new pc. She wanted to transfer the
> >data from her old machine's hard drive to the new one. So I installed
> >Windows XP with an NTFS partition on the new hard drive and installed the
> >old hard drive in the same machine (Which has Windows 98 SE installed on it
> >and all the files she wants to keep). When I booted up XP it found the
> >second hard drive like it should, and it shows it in the device manager.
> >However when I double click my computer, it is not there. It only shows
> >the C Drive (the new hard drive), and the DVD and CD-RW drive (D and E
> >respectively). So how can this problem be fixed? I think it has something
> >to do with possibly the mbr on the second hard drive? I just don't
> >understand how Windows XP can see the hard drive, but won't display it or
> >map it. Need help!

When the machine boots, pay attention to the BIOS's POST. Does it
display the Win98 HDD in the list? If not, you need to change the
jumper on the Win98 HDD and make it a slave.
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