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installing hard drive as secondary master

Posted: 01-20-2004, 08:47 PM
RJG
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I have it set as secondary master and the BIOS picks it
up and recognises its size, etc., but the icon, for the
drive, that I am assuming should just appear in My
Computer, isn't appearing.

the drive is from my laptop, which was running XP, I was
hoping to connect it to a desktop and move files off it.
the desktop it is connected to is running 98, should this
make a diff w/ NTFS Vs. FAT32 [probably] issues? would I
have better luck connecting it to a desktop running XP?

thanks.

installing hard drive as secondary master


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Cyberbear
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Re: installing hard drive as secondary master
Posted: 01-20-2004, 10:52 PM
RJG wrote:
> I have it set as secondary master and the BIOS picks it
> up and recognises its size, etc., but the icon, for the
> drive, that I am assuming should just appear in My
> Computer, isn't appearing.
>
> the drive is from my laptop, which was running XP, I was
> hoping to connect it to a desktop and move files off it.
> the desktop it is connected to is running 98, should this
> make a diff w/ NTFS Vs. FAT32 [probably] issues? would I
> have better luck connecting it to a desktop running XP?
>
> thanks.
Yes. A computer running Windows 98 will not see a drive that is formatted
with NTFS. Try connecting it to a desktop that is running Win XP.






 
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